The Meaning of Art I shall start from the assumption/proposition that the meaning of a work of art is not 'in' the work itself, and is not accessible to us provided we acquire the 'correct' information (the 'truth of/about the work'); but, rather, that meanings change according to the time, the ways and the context/s in which the works are  displayed , seen, apprehended and experienced . I believe, rather, that 'meaning' (the so-called meaning 'of' the work ) is — as in language —  'differential' ; i.e. it arises from the interaction between an art work and all the others in which it stands  in relation:  physically (in a museum display or in storage ) or in the mind (in the same category in which it is apprehended).  Put more concretely  t he meaning of a work arises from the dynamic relations and interactions in which it stands with  other works, and with us, potential viewers: in complex, 'open' semiological relations:  ...