How Long Should You Look at a Work of Art?



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Sources & Further Reading:
How Long Do You Need to Look at a Work of Art to Get It? https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-long-work-art-it
How Long Do People Really Spend Looking at Art in Museums? https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-long-people-spend-art-museums
Paying More Attention to Paying Attention: http://www.informalscience.org/news-views/paying-more-attention-paying-attention
Timing and Tracking: Unlocking Visitor Behavior: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10645570902769134
The Art of Slowing Down in a Museum: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/12/travel/the-art-of-slowing-down-in-a-museum.html
Spending Time on Art: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.2190/5MQM-59JH-X21R-JN5J?journalCode=arta
Time spent viewing art and reading labels: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2016-10247-001

Images:
New York – Metropolitan Museum Of Art “George Washington Crossing the Delaware” by David Ohmer. CC BY 2.0 https://www.flickr.com/photos/the-o/2983400749
European paintings at Metropolitan Museum of Art by André Lage Freitas. CC BY-SA 3.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:European_paintings_at_Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art_(NYC,_USA).JPG
Metropolitan Museum of Art by Phil Roeder. CC BY 2.0 https://www.flickr.com/photos/tabor-roeder/16077673691/
Metropolitan Museum of Art by Phil Roeder. CC BY 2.0 https://www.flickr.com/photos/tabor-roeder/15893520379
Art Institute of Chicago by Tripp. CC BY 2.0 https://www.flickr.com/photos/trippchicago/3154560181/
Art Institute of Chicago by Phil Roeder. CC BY 2.0 https://www.flickr.com/photos/tabor-roeder/4816444169
Gallery by John Benson. CC BY 2.0 https://www.flickr.com/photos/j_benson/9913912603/
MoMA Vir Heroicus Sublimis by Regan Vercruysse. CC BY 2.0 https://www.flickr.com/photos/rverc/8192627610
Saatchi Gallery by Herry Lawford. CC BY 2.0 https://www.flickr.com/photos/herry/3279738104/
Art Gallery of NSW by Merryjack. CC BY 2.0 https://www.flickr.com/photos/merryjack/14361412111/
Inside Bodegas Tradicion’s gallery by Andrew Wilkinson. CC BY 2.0 https://www.flickr.com/photos/andrew_j_w/6112572913/

Sounds:
Pop, Low, A (H1).wav by Inspector J. CC BY 3.0 https://freesound.org/people/InspectorJ/sounds/411639/

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