New York, Berlin, Mexico City, Paris, Hong Kong, Brussels, Athens, Budapest, Washington, DC, Toronto, Rome, Paris, San Francisco, Sydney, Melbourne, Stockholm, Seoul, Antwerp, Los Angeles, London, Barcelona, Stockholm, Johannesburg, Brazil, Singapore, and many, many other places are participating in Slow Art Day.
The 15th Annual Slow Art Day – with 210+ museums, galleries, churches, and hospitals are – begins tomorrow Saturday, April 5, 2025 (see full list of venues around the world).
Slow Art Day is a model of global cooperation. While trade barriers, tariffs, and acrimony fill the global political debate, thousands of people across every continent will celebrate the power of art to bring us together.
Here are some highlights from this year’s festival of slowing down to look at and love art.
Mexico City is hosting its first citywide Slow Art Day with more than **40** museums and galleries participating.
Bloomington, Illinois, which started the citywide movement, is now hosting 20+ museums and galleries and a big party to boot.
Mass MoCA is celebrating again as is the beautiful and wonderful Athenaeum in Boston while the Morgan Library is hosting in New York, and The Barnes Foundation , Glenn Foerd, and the Magic Gardens are all hosting in Philadelphia.
In Washington D.C., the National Museum of Women in the Arts is hosting yet again while the National Museum of Asian Art is joining us for the first time.
Antwerp’s church-based Slow Art movement continues to grow while St. Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne has become a leader in hospital-based Slow Art.
The Ur Mara Museo in Spain’s Basque country holds its 10th Slow Art Day with another full day of slow looking, cooking, eating, and dancing. While Ur Mara Museo has been celebrating Slow Art Day for a decade in the Basque country, The Altes Museum (English: Old Museum), a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the heart of Berlin’s museum island, holds their second Slow Art Day tomorrow.
The Goulandris Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens also holds their second Slow Art Day while The AGO in Toronto , one of the largest museums in North America, hosts their 10th Slow Art Day.
Australia has 11 participating museums, galleries and hospitals. The first Slow Art Day is being hosted at the De Young Museum in San Francisco (hosted by Slow Art Day pioneer, Carol Rossi).
Main Image: Photo by Greg Neville
Anna Melnykova, "Palace of Labor (palats praci), architector I. Pretro, 1916", shot with analog Canon camera, 35 mm Fuji film in March 2022.
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