Category slowartday

March 25, 2010
Slow Travel Berlin

Most of us have been guilty of blurring around at least one museum or gallery in our lives, ignoring the majority of the art therein, or focusing more on what’s for dinner later than what’s in front of us. Indeed, research shows that people spend as little as eight seconds looking at an individual work...

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April 14, 2010
Austin360.com

Here in Austin, the Blanton Museum of Art will be our host for ‘Slow Art Day’ … Like the slow food philosophy, slow art believers advocate taking time with the art-viewing experience. You’d think in the post-blockbuster exhibit era — with more people going to museums than ever before — we’d be better trained at looking at art...

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April 14, 2010
The Grand Rapids Press

Take a look at Joan Mitchell's "The River," part of the Grand Rapids Art Museum's permanent collection, and describe the piece. A large work of abstract art created with bold, multi-colored brush strokes, you say? Sounds like your quick-view answer...

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April 15, 2010
Crocker Sacramento Press

"The majority of museum visitors view an artwork for less than 30 seconds,” said Christian Adame, manager of life-long learning at the Crocker Art Museum. “But it is easy to miss the artist’s message during such a quick look. This event is designed to help participants see art in a new way – to focus, contemplate and discuss their ideas.”

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April 15, 2010
Eye Level – Smithsonian American Museum of Art

Six months ago American Art, along with twelve other museums around the world, invited people to spend an afternoon taking a long look at art as part of Slow Art day.

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April 15, 2010
Valley News

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Six-Minute Louvre, a feat that rests on the notion that there are only three objects in Paris' enormous art museum worth seeing -- The Winged Victory of Samothrace, the Venus de Milo and the Mona Lisa. “The rest of the stuff is all junk,” columnist Art Buchwald wrote in 1990 of the Six-Minute Louvre. American tourist Peter Stone set the record in 1950 for the fastest fly-by of the three objects, five minutes and 56 seconds...

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April 18
The Dartmout - Dartbeat

Seeing the vast collection of art displayed at venues like the Hood Museum may seem like an impossible task, but the folks behind Slow Art Day have a solution: don't try to...

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May 2, 2010
Real Clear Arts

Here's a little grass-roots art effort that deserves some publicity and support: Slow Art Day. It's kind of like the Slow Food movement, which attempts to get people to cook, eat slowly, and savor food. The art thesis is, if you look at art, really look slowly, you will see.

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March, 2010
French Elle