Americans, on average, spend between six and ten seconds with individual artworks in museums or galleries--hardly time enough.
Works by Diderot, Emma Hamilton, Oscar Wilde, Jeff Wall, Sam Taylor-.
But how, in our culture of distraction, might we extend attention? Slow Art models sustained ways of looking, through encounters with various media both present and past--including photography, painting, sculpture, "living pictures," film, video, digital and performance art--even light and space.
Americans, on average, spend between six and ten seconds with individual artworks in museums or galleries--hardly time enough