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Slow Art at American Art
Jeff Gates, Lead Producer New Media Initiatives at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, is co-hosting Slow Art in DC with Georgina Goodlander and her staff at the Luce Foundation Center. Jeff has written a lovely blog post on Eye Level about the S… Continue reading
Flavorpill features Slow Art New York
Flavorpill featured Slow Art New York at the top of their weekly issue. Leah Taylor, managing editor, opened up the issue with this:Stop and smell the… art? I’m all for taking a breather, for relaxing my power walk, but this week, Slow Art takes… Continue reading
Flavorpill covers Slow Art London
Flavorpill covers Slow Art London – thanks!Slow Art Copenhagen and Slow Art Portland are this weekend.Thanks,Phil P.S. From Flavorpill’s Slow Art London page (they know how to write):Art exhibitions appear to be increasingly race-like: short sprin… Continue reading
Darwin’s Origins
One section of Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species” starts tomorrow, Tuesday, October 6, 2009. The reading group will have read chapters 1 & 2 and reviewed the reading questions created and distributed by our moderator Stephanie Aktipis. If you’d l… Continue reading
Homer’s Odyssey starts tonight
Two sections of Homer’s Odyssey have their first call tonight, Monday October 5, 2009.The groups have each read books 1-8 of the Odyssey and will be talking about those books in a phone call moderated by Andre Stipanovic for group 1 and Pat Wictor… Continue reading
Host info
Slow Art hosts. This page contains next steps for what you need to do between now and your first Slow Art event. Here’s the mp3 from yesterday’s conference call, in case anyone wants to hear it again or missed it. 1. Send your brief intro to slowa… Continue reading
Slow Art Inspiration – Reflections on quick judgments
Here’s a little slow art inspiration. My 16-year-old daughter, wrote this essay—couple of days ago—pure coincidence, she knew nothing about slow art. – Amelia Bellows, Slow Art Stanford host “Reflections on quick judgments” Oona Gleeson, 16 ye… Continue reading
Whitney Tilson mp3
Whitney Tilson gave a great talk today to the Councils about a book he co-authored, “Poor Charlie’s Almanack.” Here’s the link to download the mp3: At the end of the call, Whitney also gave an update on the economy and the housing crisis. If you w… Continue reading
Sign-up for Slow Art slowly
The Reading Odyssey’s latest initiative, Slow Art, has launched in the U.S. and Europe. This live event is designed to help participants see art in a new way – to exercise their seeing, thinking and listening muscles. Slow art was started by the R… Continue reading
Great time at slow art, next one is October 17
We had a great time at our first “slow art” action this last Saturday, August 8 at MoMA in New York City.The participants each viewed paintings and sculptures in the collection for up to one hour for each object. Then after 2 1/2 hours of that slo… Continue reading