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President Grant on GBH’s The Culture Show: Practicing Slow Looking, AI Art, and more

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President Grant and host Jared Bowen discussed shrinking attention spans and how the practice of slow looking – drawing from creative education – can help restore deeper ways of thinking. They also covered the 2026 Pinnacle Awards, the rise of AI art, and recapped Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley’s visit to MassArt.

Listen to the segment beginning at 40:10.

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