.At the Compton Verney Museum in Warwichshire, an exhibition is currently installed called ‘What the Folks Say’. Artists have been invited to choose a folk artefact(s) and position the piece with another artefact, in a way that they feel is appropriate to the subject, to enhance and illumine the quality of the artpiece, to give it further depth of meaning and to add another dimension to the looking experience. For instance, Sarah Woodfine positions a childs commode next to a painting of a child, bringing a sense of identity to the pieces, a sense of story and a sense of empathy for children living in this time. The exhibition enhances the folk works making viewing feel like a treasure hunt, the viewer can seek for himself the works, looking for unusual positioning and display, that will eliminate the predictability of the musuems format. ‘There is a tendency to drift round institutions such as the British Museum looking at exhibits with a certain amount of apathy, only stopping when something really sensational grabs us. Why do we not have the confidence or discernment to do this with art?’ Perhaps it is because contemporary art has such a reputation of being highly conceptual and difficult to understand, and this causes the viewer to put himself under pressure to understand the works he is looking at. It is the responsibility of the curator to ensure an enjoyable viewing experience as opposed to an inflicting upon him an intellectual assault course, one way perhaps to look into this would be the Martian exhibition at the Curve Gallery at the Barbican. The curator has chosen artefacts from across history that would pose as good examples of anthropological enquiry as if a Martian had come down from The Red Planet to seek a good collection of work that would inform his planet of the way of planet earth. This project was realised by artists Manacorda and