Reading into “On The Road”

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In June, the Indianapolis Museum of Art will be showcasing the 120-foot-long scroll on which Jack Kerouac wrote his landmark work “On the Road.” My question: Is the scroll itself art or artifact?

The scroll  famously owned by Jim Irsay  won’t be alone on display. It will be joined by 83 cross-country photographs by Robert Frank, who collected them in the his 1958 book Les Americains. For more details on the exhibition, click here

For a brief history at the scroll – and a look at it — click here.

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