Asking Art: 10 Questions
Installation view, The Language of Less (Then and Now), Oct 8, 2011–Apr 15, 2012
Photo © MCA ChicagoAbout
- What are we looking at?
- What do you see, hear, smell, feel when you look at this?
- What’s something you’re seeing that you think nobody else has noticed?
- If you had to give someone instructions for how to make this, what would you tell them?
- If this arrived in a time machine, when and where would it have come from?
- Why might someone make this?
- If the artist who made this were here right now, what questions would you ask them?
- If you could change one thing about this, what would it be and why?
- How does this connect to something from your life?
- What other questions does this make you want to ask?
About
These questions have been developed with artists, teachers, and young people to generate dynamic, inquiry-based dialogue about art.