My issue with this kind of extended contemplative analysis is that the actual form of the art becomes less important than the attention paid to it. So the real

My issue with this kind of extended contemplative analysis is that the actual form of the art becomes less important than the attention paid to it. So the real contribution of museums is not selecting the "right" pieces for display, it's giving them space and a context where people will can quietly shuffle up and look pensively at them for a few minutes. Like, I suspect people can pull this kind of thought-provoking analysis on arbitrary objects given a "this is art" context. It's like a placebo effect. (And like the placebo effect, it's not necessarily bad.)