If you’ve visited the second floor of the Museum recently, you may have noticed that it looks considerably more bare than normal. Big changes are…
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One of the questions people always ask me is how web differs from what happens in the building and that’s a difficult thing to get…
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I’ve had a lot of time to mull over the results of the Split Second, so here are a few of my thoughts—roughly one week…
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I am listed as a contributor to the Split Second project, but I really wasn’t the brains behind it; I’m just the person who okayed…
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A big part of experiencing art is talking about it. Sometimes (or, uh, frequently) artworks are successful because they provoke disagreement, and along with that…
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In preparation for the paper rotation that recently went on view in our second floor, the works were examined and, if necessary, stabilized before going…
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In the previous post I closed by noting that depending on what participants were asked to do, visual complexity could affect their ratings. Indeed, we…
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Complexity is an important factor in the evaluation of art. In all of the previous Split Second blog posts I’ve talked about how the complexity…
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In previous Split Second blog posts, we looked at the effects of thin-slicing, textual information, and gender. Put another way, we were studying the effects…
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In the last blog post about Split Second, I talked about how adding extra information about a work changed what people thought about it. In…
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With the initiation of the project Split Second, Joan Cummins, Curator of Asian Art selected a very large number (185) of works from the Museum’s…
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The Vishnu exhibition that’s on view here right now includes a large section on the god’s avatars. The show introduces the idea of the avatar…
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Last week I talked about our Split Second: Indian Paintings exhibition and Malcolm Gladwell’s book Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. In the previous…
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A big inspiration for Split Second: Indian Paintings was the book Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell. Blink introduced the general…
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Watching Split Second: Indian Paintings get installed into the gallery this week has been a real thrill for me. I believe it is vital that…
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