Slow Art Day has asked its 2013 college interns to write short summaries of their own experiences looking slowly at artworks of their choosing. Sylvia Faichney, Slow Art Day intern from the Art Institute of Chicago, writes here about her…
Recently we’ve asked members of the Slow Art Day community to send us their “art selfies,” as in, their self-snapped pictures of proclaimed slow looking aficionados viewing and interacting with art. Submit your own #artselfie to any one of our…
Slow Art Day has asked its 2013 college interns to write short summaries of their own experiences looking slowly at artworks of their choosing. Amanda Kegu, Slow Art Day intern from the University of Florida, writes here about her experience…
What this exercise shows students is that just because you have looked at something doesn’t mean that you have seen it. Just because something is available instantly to vision does not mean that it is available instantly to consciousness. Or,…
Sam Durant wants to help you redefine the museum. Through this interactive online project, What #isamuseum?, the artist and 2013 Getty Artists Program Invitee uses crowd sourcing to explore the purpose and use of museums today. Durant mixes his own…
Slow Art Fast City from Raw Footage Films on Vimeo. “Beyond slow looking we had no rules. We weren’t looking for anything, we didn’t have to like what we saw, there would be no wrong way to look or right…
[In this series, we will be posting reports from Slow Art Day hosts around the world who held Slow Art Day events on April 27, 2013. This week, we are featuring the Slow Art Day event run by Susan Way,…
Todd Smith, Executive Director at the Tampa Museum of Art, recently filmed a video for the Tampa Bay Business Journal on what he’s observed as the change in how people view art. He compares the anachronistic way of focusing intently…
[In this series, we will be posting reports from Slow Art Day hosts around the world who held Slow Art Day events on April 27, 2013. This week, we are featuring the Slow Art Day event run by Karen Barrett-Wilt,…
[Hosts around the world are introducing themselves to each other in advance of Slow Art Day. Today we’re featuring some words from Rachel Matthews, the volunteer host at the Getty Center in West Los Angeles] Hello fellow Slow Art hosts,…