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There’s a familiar choreography to the way visitors approach art in museums: read explanatory text, and scrutinize arbitrary details.
“Our world, for all its technological sophistication,
is lacking in certain qualities.
But this painting is a visitor from another world where
those qualities: tenderness, reverence, and modesty, are
very highly valued.
Use it to find the still places in yourself.”
In many museums, a history of acquisitive, moneyed splendor has hardened into a feeling of academic exclusivity, and has a chilling effect on the art.
THESE IDEAS ARE CONTENTIOUS IN MUSEUMS,
BUT OUTSIDE… WHERE TREES WAVE AND CLOUDS GLOW
THEY ARE LESS SO.
“ALAIN DE BOTTON’S HEALING ARTS”
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Original article written by Joshua Rothman and appeared on The New Yorker website on November 19, 2013