The Three-Hour Challenge: 180 Minutes with ‘Las Meninas’
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Visitors to the Prado embraced the idea of taking a sustained look at a work of art, and shared their own insights into Velázquez’s masterpiece during the reporter’s immersive attention experiment.
Credit-Carlos Chavarria for The New York Times
The Three-Hour Challenge: 180 Minutes with ‘Las Meninas’
For years, a professor has assigned her students to spend three hours with an artwork. A reporter tried this “immersive attention” experiment with a Velázquez (gift article)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/arts/design/art-velazquez-immersive-attention.html?unlocked_article_code=1.pE8.ChFO.AoMj1pTyWpxs&smid=tw-share
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