Asking Art

These questions have been developed with artists, teachers, and young people to generate dynamic, inquiry-based dialogue about art.
Several people in a gallery space. One person points to a painting on a white wall.

 

  1. What are we looking at?
  2. What do you see, hear, smell, feel when you look at this?
  3. What’s something you’re seeing that you think nobody else has noticed?
  4. If you had to give someone instructions for how to make this, what would you tell them?
  5. If this arrived in a time machine, when and where would it have come from?
  6. Why might someone make this?
  7. If the artist who made this were here right now, what questions would you ask them?
  8. If you could change one thing about this, what would it be and why?
  9. How does this connect to something from your life?
  10. What other questions does this make you want to ask?

What’s On

Try these questions out while exploring what’s on view.

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