Index: Incident in a Museum

Index: Incident in a Museum is an extensive series of paintings produced between 1985 and 1988 by Michel Baldwin and Mel Ramsden, members of the British conceptual artists' collective Art & Language.

The ''Incident in a Museum'' series

The Index: Incident in a Museum series includes many productions. Several of these works are paintings that represent an imaginary exhibition of Art & Language in the premises of the Whitney Museum in New York. This museum collecting only works produced by American artists the exhibition does not represent a true scene. Besides, the Art & Language works represented in these paintings do not exist as they are depicted in the paintings.
Through this series, Art & Language raises, among others, the issues of places of production and artistic consumption, and the modalities of representation and abstraction. This work appears to be an artistic investigation that at the end of the series seems to tend towards emptiness.
This series of works ends with works that are titled An Incident in a Museum: Study for Hostage, the then following series of paintings being called Hostage.

Title	Technic	Dimensions	Year	#	Illus.
Index: Incident in a Museum II	Oil and acrylic painting on canvas	174 x 271	1985 - 1986	1
Index: Incident in a Museum III,	Alogram and oil on canvas on plywood	174 x 271	1985	2
Index: Incident in a Museum IV	Alogram and oil on canvas	174 x 271	1985	3
Index: Incident in a Museum V	Alogram and oil on canvas	174 x 271	1985	4
Index: Incident in a Museum VI,	Oil on canvas on plywood	174 x 271	1986	5
Index: Incident in a Museum VII,	Alogram and oil on canvas	174 x 271	1986	6
Index: Incident in a Museum VIII,	Alogram and oil on canvas	174 x 271	1986	7
Index: Incident in a Museum IX	Alogram and oil on canvas	174 x 271	1986	8
Index : Incident in a Museum X	Alogram and oil on canvas	174 x 271	1986	9
Index: Incident in a Museum XI	Alogram and oil on canvas	174 x 271	1986	10
Index: Incident in a Museum XII,	Alogram and oil on canvas	243 x 379	1986	11
Index: Incident in a Museum XIII	Alogram and oil on canvas on plywood	174 x 271	1986	12
Index: Incident in a Museum XIV	Alogram and oil on canvas on plywood	174 x 271	1986	13
Index: Incident in a Museum XV	Alogram and oil on canvas	243 x 379	1986	14
Index: Incident in a Museum XVI,	Alogram and oil on canvas on plywood	243 x 379	1986	15
Index: Incident in a Museum XVII	Alogram and oil on canvas	271 x 379	1987	16
Index: Incident in a Museum XVIII	Oil on canvas	174 x 271	1987	17
Index: Incident in a Museum XIX	Alogram and oil on canvas on plywood	174 x 271	1987	18
Index: Incident in a Museum XX	Alogram and oil on canvas	174 x 271	1987	19
Index: Incident in a Museum XXI	Photography and oil on canvas on plywood	234 x 379	1987	20
Index: Incident in a Museum XXII	Alogram and oil on canvas on plywood		1986	21
Index: Incident in a Museum XXV	Alogram and oil on canvas on plywood, library and books	174 x 271	1987	22