A Museum Visit

Creative writing

If a work of art needs only to have some characteristics that classifies art, be it in the contemporary or conventional sense, then I am justified in selecting any object present in this museum (this satisfying some of the requirements ). Now questions arise concerning the objects that were installed here to serve a specific function (which is neither artistic nor aesthetic).Not only these , but the very structure, architecture being an integral part of the museum- could they acquire the status of ‘art objects’? Considering even the humans who are strolling around looking in awe at objects whose status they have probably equaled ( if this argument stands) only by their physical entry into this structure even before setting their eyes on any object.
Knowing ( in accordance with ‘common’ sense ) that this argument would not stand , I used the word ‘some’ and not ‘one’ in the opening sentence.
Right now I sit before an object( a bulletin board) that visibly satisfies not only some but many conventional characteristics of art . Apart from being within a frame , its got shapes, lines , tones, text and even con-text. But it stands here not as a work of art which is too meager and clichéd a position . It stands here as a Triumphant Revolutionary having pulled down the very structure that supports it. Being on an easel, it has destroyed the identity of this place. It has proved that works in a museum are not art works but processes. Therefore if every frame is a process then this structure is not a museum.
Even this work on paper ‘being’ created by me is supported by this Revolutionary( the Bulletin Board).


Neha Jiandani
3rd yr BVA
Art History Dept.
Chitra Kala Parishath
25/4/07