Looking For Longer Than a Second

And some thoughts on how art trains young brains

Rufus at the exhibition When Forms Come Alive. Image my own

This week I’ve been thinking a lot about the practice of looking closely at things. It started when one of my readers sent me some wonderful writing and drawings that her boys Henry (age 10) and Rufus (age 9) had done in response to an exhibition in London that I reviewed a few weeks ago. The show is called When Forms Come…