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Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

The ideas shaping our lives today - with artists and thinkers in debates and interviews.

The ideas shaping our lives today - with leading artists and thinkers in extended interview and debate.

Free Thinking: Slow Looking at Art

Slow Looking at Art

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Ways of Seeing with Michael Craig Martin, Aura Satz, Kelly Grovier & Daniel Glaser.

Ways of Seeing from Bonnard to Bill Viola with artists Michael Craig-Martin & Aura Satz, scientist Daniel Glaser and art writer Kelly Grovier. Laurence Scott presents.

Is a 30 second look enough to get a painting? Artists Aura Satz & Michael Craig-Martin,  poet and art historian Kelly Grovier and neuroscientist, Daniel Glaser debate.

As new shows featuring the Post-impressionist, Pierre Bonnard and the video artist, Bill Viola, open in London, Laurence Scott and his guests discuss the way we experience art from the current vogue for slow looking to the 30 second appraisal  scientists say is the norm for most gallery goers.  How do small details reshape our understanding of paintings? What about looking more than once?  Does digital art require more or less concentration ? 

Kelly Grovier's book A New Way of Seeing: The History of Art in 57 Works is out now.

Pierre Bonnard: The Colour of Memory runs from 23 January to 6 May 2019 at Tate Modern. It will show 100 works of art by the French painter created between 1912 and 1947 and will include special evenings of "Slow Looking". 

Bill Viola / Michelangelo  Life Death Rebirth runs at the Royal Academy in London from 26 January — 31 March 2019 

The Free Thinking Visual Arts Playlist with interviews including Tacita Dean, Chantal Joffe and Sean Scully amongst others is here https://bbc.in/2DpskGS 

Producer: Zahid Warley

Image: Pierre Bonnard (1867 – 1947)
Coffee (Le Café) 1915
Oil paint on canvas 730 x 1064 mm
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