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by Gregg Chadwick Johannes Vermeer Woman In Blue Reading A Letter  ( Brieflezende   vrouw ) 18 5/16" x 15 3/8" oil on canvas 1663-64  Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. On loan from the City of Amsterdam (A.  van  der Hoop Bequest)   "It seems appropriate that a gesture so paradigmatic of Vermeer's art, should appear concerned with the weighing and balancing of light itself." - Edward Snow Currently on view at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, is Vermeer's haunting painting  Woman In Blue Reading A Letter.  On loan from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Getty is the artwork's last stop on a world tour before returning to the Netherlands for the reopening of the Rijksmuseum on April 13, 2013. The painting is on view at the Getty through Sunday, March 31, 2013. The Getty has thoughtfully installed  Woman in Blue Reading a Letter amidst paintings by Vermeer's Dutch contemporaries. On a recent visit to see the work at the Getty...

by Gregg Chadwick Peter Clothier Leads A One Hour/ One Painting Session photo by Joanne Warfield Peter Clothier's important new book Slow Looking: The Art of Looking at Art guides  the reader seamlessly through the history, process, and ideas behind his  One Hour/One Painting  sessions.  Clothier's development of One Hour/One Painting   began with the realization that along with most museum or gallery visitors, he increasingly spent more time looking at the information label on the wall than at the artwork itself. To combat this habit, Peter began  to spend an hour silently and inquisitively gazing at one work of art.  Much influenced in recent years by Buddhist thought and practice, Clothier combined elements of  meditation and  contemplation in these sessions and  found  more profound and rewarding experiences.    In a   One Hour/One Painting session, Peter Clothier invites small groups...