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Join Jim Cuno, president of the J. Paul Getty Trust, as he talks with artists, writers, curators, and scholars about their work. Listen in as he engages these important thinkers in reflective and critical conversations about architecture, archaeology, art history, and museum exhibitions.
Mindfulness in the Museum: Lessons from a Meditation Guide
Getty Art + Ideas
38 minutes
2 years ago
Mindfulness in the Museum: Lessons from a Meditation Guide
“Mindfulness, for me, enables me to experience an art museum as if I’m listening to music. To just listen, attend to how all these objects make me feel.”How can mindfulness change our experience of art? Experienced meditation teacher and guide Tracy Cochran sees museums as perfect places to practice the lessons of mindfulness. From focusing on how an artwork impacts the feelings in her body to using the meditation techniques of “beginner’s mind” or “don’t know mind” to understand a work of art in a new way, Cochran sees many opportunities for applying mindfulness in the museum. In this episode, hosted by Getty Museum educator Lilit Sadoyan, Cochran shares her understanding of mindfulness and its role in art spaces as well as some techniques for practicing mindfulness in museums. Cochran teaches mindfulness meditation and mindful writing in the greater New York area at institutions such as the Rubin Museum of Art, New York Insight Meditation Center, and numerous schools, libraries, and corporations. She is also the editorial director of Parabola magazine.For images, transcripts, and more, visit https://www.getty.edu/podcasts/art-and-ideas/mindfulness-in-the-museum-lessons-from-a-meditation-guide (https://www.getty.edu/podcasts/art-and-ideas/mindfulness-in-the-museum-lessons-from-a-meditation-guide) or http://www.getty.edu/podcasts (http://www.getty.edu/podcasts/)To learn more about Tracy Cochran, visit https://tracycochran.org/ (https://tracycochran.org/)
Getty Art + Ideas
Join Jim Cuno, president of the J. Paul Getty Trust, as he talks with artists, writers, curators, and scholars about their work. Listen in as he engages these important thinkers in reflective and critical conversations about architecture, archaeology, art history, and museum exhibitions.
