From time to time, we post short articles from Slow Art Day hosts. The article below is by veteran Slow Art Day host, Paul Langton. A rainy day. I am early for an appointment. An opportunity to go to a…
Slow Art Day has asked its 2013 college interns to write short summaries of their own experiences looking slowly at artworks of their choosing. I was a little nervous about my practice run of looking slowly at a single piece…
Slow Art Day has asked its 2013 college interns to write short summaries of their own experiences looking slowly at artworks of their choosing. While spending some time at home in Virginia over the holidays, I headed into Washington DC…
Slow Art Day has asked its 2013 college interns to write short summaries of their own experiences looking slowly at artworks of their choosing. Meandering the sparsely populated gallery on a normal Tuesday afternoon, it is nearly impossible to not…
Slow Art Day has asked its 2013 college interns to write short summaries of their own experiences looking slowly at artworks of their choosing. I recently went to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), to visit their currrent…
Slow Art Day has asked its 2013 college interns to write short summaries of their own experiences looking slowly at artworks of their choosing. One afternoon, I spend 20 minutes looking at Rufino Tamayo’s El Hombre En La Ventana (1980). At…
Katie Hosmer at My Modern Met describes the experience of Alaska-based photographer Mark Meyer: each morning, he captures an image of the view out his bedroom window. From falling leaves to snow to frost, Meyers freezes a moment in time…
We at Slow Art Day are excited to learn that Kristi McMillan, assistant curator of education for visitor engagement at the Birmingham Museum of Art (BMA), recently launched a new free program: Slow Art Sundays. Slow Art Sundays, led by…
Big Red & Shiny’s Benjamin R. Sloat interviews three Taiwanese artists, Chen Chieh-Jen, Yao Jui-Chung, and Chien-Chi Chang, and discusses the challenges of cultural misinterpretation. Marcel Duchamp said the viewer participates in the artistic process – “the artist sets in…
When you are looking at art in a gallery or museum do you pay attention to the building or the installation set-up? Harry Cooper, curator of modern and contemporary art at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, writes…