Tuning Out Digital Buzz, for an Intimate Communion with Art
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“Tuning Out Digital Buzz, for an Intimate Communion With Art”Original Author: Holland CotterSummarized by Museum Hack
The only way you would retain what you saw was to spend time in the galleries, and imprint things on your brain.
Today, millions of people stream through museums. They move through galleries fast and with a new purpose.
Texture doesn’t translate through pictures. Photos don’t give us the desire to reach out and touch a piece.
A recent scientific study suggests that people enjoy art more and remember
it longer, when they see it live in museums.
The digital presence of entire museum collections online is a tremendous gift of pleasure and knowledge.
But the further we distance ourselves from art itself, from being in front of it, life is what we lose — art’s and ours.
“Tuning Out Digital Buzz, for an
Intimate Communion With Art”
Original article written by Holland
Cotter, Art Critic, and published by The
New York Times
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