LookAtArts is a daily visual meditation: one artwork a day from the Met’s open-access collection, presented with nothing competing for your attention. The project was sparked by a New York Times story about Harvard art history professor Jennifer Roberts, who encourages her students to spend three full hours with a single artwork in a museum. In a world where a painting someone spent months on gets half a second of attention as you scroll past it, that kind of slow, deliberate observation felt like a radical idea — and a powerful way to re-center and find calm. Me and my friend Petr Kaplunovich wanted to build a small corner of the internet around it.

(today’s meditation: “The Forest in Winter at Sunset” by Théodore Rousseau)

A new piece appears every day — visit lookatarts.com and take a minute. We hope it helps you carve out a moment of presence in your day.