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ARTInfo: Slow Art Day Fights Visual Grazing With a Deep Dive Into Museums

by Kyle Chayka
Published in ARTInfo: August 17, 2012

A 2001 study showed that visitors to the Metropolitan Museum looked at individual works of art for an average of just 17 seconds at a time, a visual habit called “grazing.” Even the most iconic artworks in the world can’t seem to hold our attention: The Louvre discovered that visitors look at the Mona Lisa for just 15 seconds on average. In the age of the moving image and endlessly updated World Wide Web, works of art in more traditional media don’t get the focus they deserve. Slow Art Day, a three-year-old initiative currently ramping up for its 2013 event, is looking to change all that with an orchestrated long art-viewing session at museums around the world.

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Introducing the ‘slow art’ movement; it’s like the ‘slow food’ movement, with art (and food)

For a few moments, the event acquired a six-men-of-Indostan quality.

The abstract painting by Reed Danziger, exploding with colors and shapes, brought to mind a collage, said a painter and teacher of Hebrew from Israel. An artist from Brooklyn demurred. There was so much going on—it gave her the sense of standing in front of a manifesto, she insisted. Surely it resembled a film strip, argued a painter from Long Island City.

The artists were gathered atMcKenzie Fine Art gallery in Chelsea on Saturday for Slow Art Day, an annual event during which art lovers visit local museums and galleries to look—slowly, deliberately, and thoughtfully—at pre-selected works, and then repair to lunch to discuss the experience.

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Slow Art Day at Centre

BLOW me away – art lovers are being urged to take it easy.

Slow Art Day is an international celebration aimed at getting people to enjoy art at a leisurely pace.

The National Glass Centre in Sunderland is joining in the fun this Saturday.
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Slow Art Day is Saturday at MAG

Several years ago, my wife took a guided tour through the vast Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. Afterward, she reported tongue-in-cheek: “They got us through in record time!”

Unfortunately, that’s a common experience for tour groups visiting museums as one stop in an action-packed day. The Memorial Art Gallery will try to make you forget that whizbang approach Saturday.

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Slow Art Day 2012 Reaches New Heights: 100 Events Scheduled

Organizers announce the largest Slow Art Day to date.

NEW YORK, NY, April 27, 2012 – Just one day before Slow Art Day 2012, organizers announce reaching a new milestone: 100 events are scheduled for April 28, 2012. The international, all-volunteer event celebrating art will take place in venues ranging from small to large and include MoMA in New York (the site of the first Slow Art Day in 2009), Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, and the National Gallery in Canberra, Australia...

Slow Art Day 2012 Announces Key Milestone

Slow Art Day 2012 Announces Key Milestone

Organizers announce more than 75 events are scheduled for April 28, 2012.

NEW YORK, NY, April 3, 2012 – Slow Art Day, the international grassroots arts movement, announced that Slow Art Day events would take place in at least 75 venues (museums, galleries and sculpture gardens) around the world April 28, 2012. Venues range from small to large and include MoMA in New York (the site of the first Slow Art Day in 2009), Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, and the National Gallery in Canberra, Australia. Organizers expect additional venues to join leading up to April 28, 2012...

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