Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

This is the ceiling of 'The Buddha' room at BMAG. In my opinion, the best part of the room.

Our course met there today for our seminar to discuss conventions and methods of displaying art work. Any art work is advertently or inadvertently affected by the space and objects around it. This regards spacing, background colour, hierarchy of objects, lighting (artificial and natural), labelling, angles etc etc.

Why has it been put into a gallery in the first place? Who decides what gets displayed and what does not? Does putting something in a gallery make it art? Who says?