April, 2011
Art News
One Saturday in 2008, Phil Terry visited the exhibition “Action/Abstraction” at the Jewish Museum in New York and spent an hour in front of Hans Hofmann’s Fantasia (1943)...
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April 19, 2010
The Uncatalogued Museum [blog]
The idea of time set aside to be slow--and to be slow in a museum was pretty interesting to me. Yesterday, I participated in Slow Art Day, in Kyiv. … Over coffee, our conversation ended up being not just about the art but about the process. Some people wanted more information; some liked the deep looking and that was enough; we talked about the differences between Ukrainian and American museum visitors; and about guided tours or other ways to provide information...
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March 19, 2011
Soul of Miami
The Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach will host a PechaKucha, a creative networking event, exploring the local Slow Art Movement on Saturday, March 19th. PechaKucha is a Japanese inspired event for creatives to meet, network and share their work in public. With 20 Power Point slides shown for 20 seconds each, local thought leaders will have about seven minutes to talk about developing conversations and community issues around their passion in the arts...
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You might think that something called “Slow Art Day” would consist of snail sketches or turtle studies. Um, no. Instead, we had a dozen folks come to The Showroom yesterday to look at art. Really look at some art...
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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