A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.

When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.

History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy.

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.