Lecture, Slow Art: Looking Long and Hard in the Age of Instant Everything

THIS LECTURE HAS BEEN CANCELED.

Most Americans spend about 10 seconds looking at a work of art. Arden Reed, the Arthur M. Dole and Fanny M. Dole Professor of English at Pomona College, in Claremont, California, and the author of Slow Art: the Experience of Looking, Sacred Images to James Turrell (University of California Press, 2017), argues that art only reveals itself gradually as we dwell with it—requiring more time encountering the object. In this lecture, Reed proposes strategies to extend our encounters with art in our culture of speed and distraction. Generously sponsored by the Martin A. Ryerson Fund.