By Fionn Hargreaves For The Daily Mail
Published: 02:00 BST, 6 April 2019 | Updated: 02:00 BST, 6 April 2019
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We've had slow food and slow television.
Now an art gallery has published a guide to ‘slow looking’ as it attempts to fight back against the hectic pace of modern life.
Spurred by reports that art lovers were spending as little as eight seconds looking at each work of art, the Tate Modern is encouraging members of the public to stare at one for up to an hour.
The Tate is joining galleries and museums around the world in celebrating today’s Slow Art Day. It advises people to think of the gallery 'as a menu, rather than to-do list'
This will give them enough time to better appreciate art, it says.
The Tate is joining galleries and museums around the world in celebrating today’s Slow Art Day.
The annual event, which has been running since 2010, sees galleries put on special tours to try to get people to change their viewing habits. The guide, which is published on the gallery’s website says: ‘The important
