Don’t touch the art |
Who decides what art means?
Michael Rakowitz: haunting the West
Microscopically reweaving a 1907 painting
Consciousness and creation: the neuroscience of perception
Being in the world: technology and humanity
When artworks dare audiences to break a cardinal museum rule
One of the cardinal rules of museum-going is that art should be enjoyed from a comfortable distance and never touched. However, in the 1960s, a cohort of artists began inviting audiences to interact with, and thus alter, their works. This included the Japanese artist Yoko Ono, whose Painting to Be Stepped On (1960-61) was, as the title explicitly states, designed to be trampled.
In this instalment of the Art and the Senses short documentary series from the Museum of........