Saturday, March 26, 2011

How gallery visitors only viewed work by Damien Hirst and Tracy Emin for less than 5 seconds

Damien Hirst and Tracy EminThe basic fact about art is that you, the viewer, decide how much time you're going to give it. Other art forms give you no choice. Damien Hirst and Tracy EminA symphony is going to take up 40 minutes of your time; a film two hours; a play perhaps three or four hours. But you can choose whether to look at a painting for ten seconds or ten minutes. That's a good measure

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