way to see art
Jun. 17th, 2005 11:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seichan[If there is a next time, it won't be so easy. When the museum reopened Friday after a 10-month security overhaul, several hundred invited guests waited up to a half-hour each to pass through two airport-style metal detectors, an X-ray machine, an optical ticket reader, a turnstile and a double set of one-way security doors. Inside, all of Munch's pictures were framed behind glass and bolted to the wall. The most significant ones were further protected by an 11-foot-tall partition of thick glass panels positioned 24 inches from the wall and overseen by security cameras and guards. The online version of the newspaper Aftenposten rechristened the museum "Fortress Munch."]--nytimes
hm...so those docents who yell at you if you have a jacket tied around your waist or if you stare at a painting too long or if you are within 5 feet of a painting let someone walk in and take a painting off the wall? thus, leading to all that? man, that's the worst thing you can do to an artlover. stick thick glass over top the work so you can't see it. the first 5 security things aren't enough? why not hire competent security people. or put security features behind the painting.
anyway. *sleepy*
hm...so those docents who yell at you if you have a jacket tied around your waist or if you stare at a painting too long or if you are within 5 feet of a painting let someone walk in and take a painting off the wall? thus, leading to all that? man, that's the worst thing you can do to an artlover. stick thick glass over top the work so you can't see it. the first 5 security things aren't enough? why not hire competent security people. or put security features behind the painting.
anyway. *sleepy*
