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Looking 101

Exhibition Stories, Northwestern Learning

Looking 101: A conversation with curator Essi Rönkkö

The average museum visitor spends less than 30 seconds looking at a work of art. It usually takes us far less than that to draw conclusions about what we see; the human brain seems to perform this work automatically and instantaneously. How can we slow down our looking habits to better understand the process of […]

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