The Art of Basketball? Um, no...sort of.

First, let me say that I would not be the ideal art school student to ask about a basketball exhibit in an art museum. Unlike many of my fellow students, I am actually quite opinionated when it comes to sports, one of those main opinions being: I detest basketball. It's really nothing personal and I don't mean to be offensive to those who do like basketball but the last four years of my life have been spent in total devotion to wrestling. Being from the Iowa/South Dakota area wrestling generally takes precedence over basketball and that is especially true for me. It's more than a mild interest and anyone who's facebook friends with me knows that it consumes my thoughts, especially during the winter months. That being said, it is my duty as a wrestling fanatic to find distaste in anything basketball related. In a joking manner I believe I said something like, "I feel like they've defaced this poor beautiful museum", when I saw the tape applied to the floor.

That being said, Rebecca made a very good point as we discussed the exhibit. It was a fantastic marketing tactic on the part of the museum. Hundreds of people who might not have otherwise set foot in the Nelson went because of the exhibit. Regardless of whether or not the original rules of basketball belong at an art museum I think the most important aspect is that the exhibit only served to support the museum and gather a crowd of people that otherwise would not have ever gone and that's something that I can support.