Roberta Smith in 2011 on the American Folk Art Museum (see previous post):
"It could be argued that we need a museum of folk art
the way we need a museum of modern art,
to shine a very strong, undiluted light on
a very important achievement."
Some other aesthetic remarks:
"We have had a gutful of fast art and fast food.
What we need more of is slow art: art that holds time
as a vase holds water: art that grows out of modes
of perception and whose skill and doggedness
make you think and feel; art that isn't merely sensational,
that doesn't get its message across in 10 seconds,
that isn't falsely iconic, that hooks onto something
deep-running in our natures. In a word, art that is
the very opposite of mass media. For no spiritually
authentic art can beat mass media at their own game."
— Robert Hughes, speech of June 2, 2004,
quoted here June 15, 2007.
Perhaps, as well as museums of modern art and of folk art,
we need a Museum of Slow Art.
One possible exhibit, from this journal Monday:
The diagram on the left is from 1922. The 20 small squares at right
that each have 4 subsquares darkened were discussed, in a different
context, in 1905. They were re-illustrated, in a new context
(Galois geometry), in 1986. The "key" square, and the combined
illustration, is from April 1, 2013. For deeper background, see
Classical Geometry in Light of Galois Geometry.
Those who prefer faster art may consult Ten Years After.