How much context and knowledge do you need to enjoy art?

Taking our current Jasper Johns exhibition as a starting point, this discussion explores the question of how we view and interpret art more widely. Where a work of art has a narrative, would our experience of it be enhanced by having more knowledge, or are our senses enough? Where art is explained, who is the author of that interpretation and how are they directing us in how we view art? Is it the role of the artist to explain their work? Our panel: Cathie Pilkington, artist Gill Hart, Head of Education at the National Gallery Kirsteen McSwein, Curator, Interpretation at Tate (chair) Dr David Dibosa, reader in Museology at UAL