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Thirty-something questions to ask in front of art

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Rosecrans Baldwin
Oct 22, 2022
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“Wood with Beach Trees” (1899), Piet Mondrian

I was in a gallery the other week looking at a painting and I pulled up an old thing on my phone, a micro-essay from here about looking at a painting by Willem de Kooning, because I needed to remind myself of some of the questions I like to ask when I’m looking at a painting and trying to give it time to sett…

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