Learning to Love You More

{{Short description|American crowdsourced art project}}

{{Italic title}}Learning to Love You More (LTLYM) was an American crowdsourced art project, where over 8,000 people posted work they had created in response to a series of prompts over a span of seven years.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/17/magazine/the-make-believer.html|title=Miranda July, The Make-Believer|last=Onstad|first=Katrina|date=2011-07-14|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-08-20|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.artforum.com/video/id=28764&mode=large&page_id=14|title=Harrell Fletcher and Miranda July Discuss Learning to Love You More, 2011|work=artforum.com|access-date=2017-08-20|language=en-US}} The project was created in 2002 by Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher, with a website created by Yuri Ono.{{Cite web|url=http://rhizome.org/art/artbase/artwork/learning-to-love-you-more/|title=Learning to Love You More|website=Rhizome|access-date=2017-08-20}} In May 2009, the authors discontinued the project, ending with a final assignment asking people to "Say Goodbye."{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/925426732|title=A companion to digital art|others=Paul, Christiane|date=2 March 2016 |isbn=9781118475218|location=Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA|oclc=925426732}} In 2010, SFMOMA acquired the work.{{Cite book|title=New Collecting: Exhibiting and Audiences After New Media Art|last=Beryl|first=Graham|publisher=Routledge|year=2016|isbn=9781317088660|location=|pages=147–149}} The work has been exhibited at The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, Rhodes College in Memphis, the Aurora Picture Show in Houston, The Seattle Art Museum in Seattle, the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sfmoma.org/exhibition/learning-love-you-more/|title=Learning to Love You More|website=SFMOMA|language=en|access-date=2017-08-20}}

Book

In 2007, July and Fletcher published the book Learning to Love You More, (published by Prestel) which features selections from the website. Ken Johnson of the New York Times called it " delightful, often funny and at times surprisingly moving."{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/07/books/07artb.html|title=Critics' Picks - Art and Architecture Books - 2007|date=2007-12-07|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-08-20|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} Publishers Weekly wrote that "The resonance of the work... is sadly diminished in book form, where a willing lack of organization often isolates contributions from the same assignment."{{Cite news|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-3-7913-3733-3|title=Nonfiction Book Review: Learning to Love You More by Harrell Fletcher, Author, Miranda July, Author, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Essay by Prestel Publishing $19.95 (158p) ISBN 978-3-7913-3733-3|work=PublishersWeekly.com|access-date=2017-08-20|language=en}}

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