You reply that maybe creating tennis shoes is an artistic act. You inhale deeply and then say something you believe might get you in trouble: You suggest that, maybe, just maybe, art is too ambiguous and overbroad a term to be of much use. Definitions of art seem to vary from person to person, and it’s rarely obvious what anyone exactly means when they use the term. Maybe the museum shouldn’t even have an Art department. Maybe, instead, it should have smaller departments devoted to more specific disciplines, such as a Paintings department and a Sculpture department and a Film department and, indeed, a Video Game department.

Pinehurst is taken aback by this. “I’m not gonna shut down the Art department. I’m its assistant director!”

You remind that Pinehurst that he is the interim assistant director and that he will cease to occupy his current position once Hooversmith returns from sabbatical.

Pinehurst scoffs and then exits the room. As he leaves, you notice that the video game cartridge is still in his hand.

The End