Cluny Museum, Paris 1930

Editor: This is Roger Fry’s "Cluny Museum, Paris." It’s a drawing with lots of cross-hatching, giving it a rough, textural feel. What do you see in this piece, considering how it was made? Curator: I see Fry engaging with the building’s history through his mark-making. Look at how he renders the stone – the labor of quarrying, shaping, and the weathering process, all embedded in the drawing itself. How does the drawing, a mass-producible medium, relate to the museum's purpose of preserving unique, often hand-crafted objects? Editor: That's interesting! So, it's not just about depicting the museum, but also reflecting on how we value and display objects? Curator: Precisely. The drawing becomes part of a chain of production and consumption, highlighting the museum’s role in this process. Editor: I never thought about it that way. Curator: Thinking about art in terms of the physical labor and materials changes everything, doesn’t it?