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Slow Art Literary Tour
Attached is the Slow Art Literary tour guide for the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. This guide is not meant to be sold or used to raise money. Thanks to the Met for providing such a wonderful museum including the treasures in the Ancient Nea… Continue reading
Art Garfunkel is on a reading odyssey too
Art Garfunkel is on a reading odyssey too.If you are interested in what he has read, then you can visit his website where he’s posted the more than 1,000 books he’s read since 1968. You can browse year-by-year so you can see that in 1968 Art Garfu… Continue reading
Next and final conference call for Homer
Hope your Thanksgiving was bountiful and that your reading has been enjoyable. I just want to remind you about our upcoming final conference call for Homer’s Odyssey next week: Monday Dec 7, @8pm EST. Please look over our Study Guide Questions whi… Continue reading
Sean Carroll’s Darwin150 webcast is *tonight* at 8pm ET
Professor Sean Carroll’s third lecture in the Darwin150 campaign still has a few webcast spots left. This will be one of this great scientist’s best talks – a multi-media extravaganza supporting his great insights and writings. It all begins at 8p… Continue reading
Homer and Darwin reading groups this week
Tonight we have two sections of Homer meeting by phone to discuss this month’s reading of The Odyssey – Books 9 – 16. Tomorrow night, Tuesday, the Darwin reading group is meeting to talk about chapters 3 and 4 in the Origin of Species. And the Ari… Continue reading
Seeing the Troubled Queen
Jeff Doyle at the Open Museum attended the Boston Slow Art last weekend and just published a piece about his experience – including a video of his experience looking at Jackson Pollock’s “The Troubled Queen.” Ezra Pound, Jackson Pollock and Madonn… Continue reading
Slow Art Boston – amazing
Michelle May, Payal Kripalani and the other artists at eInvite, who hosted Slow Art Boston and Slow Art Worcester this last weekend, described their Slow Art experience today on their corporate design blog (and posted many photos).Slow Art was pre… Continue reading
Smithsonian Magazine covers Slow Art
The Smithsonian Magazine covered Slow Art today. Thanks, Smithsonian – you really got the idea. And thanks for the great tortoise photo. Here’s the beginning of the article: I think most of us are familiar with the adage, “steady and slow wins the… Continue reading
Slow Art Ukraine
I received a lovely note from a Ukranian curator talking about a recent piece of performance art he curated at the national museum in the Ukraine.See his text below and the attached documents. I was intrigued to read on Flavorpill NYC about the up… Continue reading
Happy New Year from Emily Dickinson
The most triumphant Bird I ever knew or met Embarked upon a twig today And till Dominion set I famish to behold so eminent a sight And sang for nothing scrutable But intimate Delight. Retired, and resumed his transitive Estate– To what delicious … Continue reading →
02. January 2010 by Arrian
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