A New Way to Look at Old Art

At the Kunstsammlung in Zurich, I watched a thousand-year-old Chinese woman with a cane look at a Sisley for more than an hour, like maybe it was going to go somewhere if she didn’t watch it, and I learned from her a new way to look at art—hard and for a long time—and I hope I don’t forget it.

From “Don’t Spend It All in One Place,” by Taffy Brodesser-Akner from Afar; "Flood at Port-Marly" by Alfred Sisley, 1872

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