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True! You were not allowed to sketch whilst in the exhibition… because you’d obviously stand in front of a painting too long. Also true, no bathroom there on that floor… and no leaving the exhibit and returning… crowd control was almost ridiculous. Still… great show!
Curses on you, crowd controls.
Except the mild speed bumps and round-about traffic circles, I speed up for those. Whee!
I saw the Van Gogh exhibit when it was at the museum in the city. I think they tried to do a crowd control but failed, there was hardly any room too /move/ let alone take out a sketchbook to even just hold!
A lot of museums over here aren’t allowing sketching now, it’s totally ridiculous. I guess you could look them up on the internet later, but it’s just not the same.
When we were touring Windsor Castle this summer we stopped to talk with a docent. She told us that the audio tour was designed to pump people through so fast that they don’t really experience the place. I have to stand there long enough to let the place soak in before I can really see it.
-Rob
Redtaildd: Hmph. They should just install conveyor belts and have done with it.
Dave… Oh, the humanity! I agree. Not being able to sketch is a crime! If it’s a museum… it’s a place to be “mused” … how can you be mused if you aren’t allowed to connect with the art??? How do artists connect? BY DRAWING! Fuh!
Rob… yes, soaking. Sigh… the conveyor belt? like when viewing the crown jewels? no, I don’t think so! … and speaking of speed bumps… they call them “humps” over there.
Blue: Yes, it was most crowded when I went, too. I definitely would have stayed longer if people didn’t keep bumping into me. And as a “fun-sized” person… I have to “politely” move to the front of crowds if I want to see anything. Luckily, most people can just look over my head.
I suppose photography is out of the question as well, even a surreptitious phone cam shot. Decades ago, when I first obtained a camcorder, I innocently started to video a collection of great pottery at a street craft fair. I was told, in the rudest and haughtiest tones, that it was incredibly RUDE of me to photograph a display without asking for permission. While I will readily confess to being ignorant of some protocols, I am ordinarily the soul of consideration and etiquette, and I thought the artist would take it as a compliment that I thought her work worthy of memorializing, if not actually buying. (It was outrageously expensive stuff.)
Anyway, it sounds like popular art exhibits aren’t worth the journey if you can’t soak in the experience.
They generally don’t allow you to snap the quick pic at the muse-eeums, either. Yes, flashes are bad, so turn them off, but heaven forbid any shots (or vids) taken of visiting installations.
Oh the humanity.
Kona… Photography at THIS exhibition was prohibited for sure! On my first trip to the D’Orsay in Paris, it was completely d’accord to take photos… the second time, it wasn’t allowed. I suspect that it was for crowd control, because half the museum was closed for refurbishing (which is why the paintings came to the de Young!). I remember being able to photograph art at the National Gallery of Art in DC. The Louvre allowed it. but I suspect that it will become a thing of the past soon.
As far as photography at street fairs and such… I think it is a matter of “stealing ideas.”
Brig: Hmm. Not sure if it applies to other parts of the UK, but where I’m from, speed bumps are “speed bumps” – or “sleeping policemen”.
Yep. Museums get pretty outrageous with their rules sometime.
My friend and teacher Barron was giving me and some students an impromptu tour of the MOMA, telling us about the history of the artwork and artists, when a museum attendant came over and told him to stop. Why? Because they pay people to do that, and supplying knowledge to other attendants somehow takes away from their paycheck!
…and if Randie has a problem with that particular attendant, she can counteract with this: the attendant made physical contact with her. That’s grounds for ASSAULT!
Kinda’, sorta’.
Astragali…. dang Bobbie speed bumps!
Dada! Preposterous! Preposterous I say! Absurd (kinda like Dada, eh?)