Slow Art Day & the Art of Seeing

Many people find a great deal of solace in art museums. There’s something about being surrounded by beautiful things and larger-than-life paintings that feels so grand. But for some, the reality of a museum’s dim, quiet, and sterile insides are not so much inviting as they are downright unbearable. Imagine your shoes, squeaking anxiously across linoleum tiles, dark painted eyes of portraits watching you move through the galleries, or worst of all, becoming lost in maze of the—gulp—contemporary art wing.…