It makes me really uncomfortable that nobody seems to be saying much about the fact that he’s so much younger and how that makes him extra vulnerable. Nineteen is technically an adult, but you’re still young an easy to take advantage of. Not you, but the conversation in general. I feel like people get blinded by the…

Trying not to judge. Trying not to judge. Oh fuck it, I’ll judge. No, no, no, no, dear God this is not ok. (Back to the Olympics. The women’s soccer team just took the lead!)

You’re 100% right and I retract my nomination

I HAVE SEEN THIS KIND OF SHIT EXACTLY ONCE AND UGH. I was at one of those evening museum things at the modern art museum in n Phoenix a couple years ago with a guy I was seeing. There was this giant two-sided wall of colored paper pressed together to make a sort of gradient (I’m explaining this badly, but it was cool…

Bad touch! Bad touch!

As a former museum guard at a local Chicago museum (located in the museum campus): You should be mortified, actually, your bf should be mortified, not you. And no crying!

I have a “reverse” story. I was once at the Guggenheim museum and there was an interactive exhibit. The sign encouraged people to touch it yet as soon as I did a guard ran up to me and screamed so loud every single person on every level looked at us. (Mortifying if you know the layout of that museum). I was kind of…

Also, please remain from flash photography when taking photos, selfies, whatever, of most art. The light can contribute to aging of many materials, accelerating the rate at which the piece needs repair. Paintings in particular are very sensitive to this, but photography, paper work... 2-D work in general... just buy a…

Theme of this post: People are the worst, and social media is largely to blame. Co-sign on that.

Not a museum, but at the Time Warner Center in NYC, there are two giant bronze Botero statues. of naked people. You know how bronze gets shiner when it’s polished? Let’s just say it’s fairly obvious that the male statue is getting touched WAY too much.

I ACCIDENTALLY (I did not intentionally touch it) broke a huge vase in an art museum when I was like 6 years old. It was traumatizing. Prior to this museum tour, the lady leading it threatened all of us small children not to touch anything because these pieces were worth more than our family’s homes....

Also, parents at museums: control your fucking kids. If they’re not able to control themselves and you’re not able/willing to control them yourself, then you shouldn’t be at a fucking museum. I was at the Whitney a few weeks ago, and I see a mom/dad and 3 kids under the age of 5 come out of the elevator.

Some people ain’t got couth.

My father once almost took out a large painting at Musée de l’Orangerie. He had leaned in to get a close look (he’s an engineer—-he does this) and lost his balance. Fortunately he did not damage anything other than my pride. I was mortified.

They ended up putting ceremonial guards at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Ottawa because people kept using the covering-slab as a park bench—probably not realizing that there is an actual person under there—the final straw being some drunk nitwit pissing on it.

On a similar subject, why do people feel compelled to take photos of really famous art? I went to Versailles and whole tour buses spent their visit looking at everything through their cell phones and iPads. It’s famous art, there are books with high quality images in it! The Internet has pictures! You’re missing the…

I think I’ve mentioned this before, but my first trip to the local art museum was at age 11. Mom sat me down and gave me a lecture about not touching the art, which I rolled my eyes through because obviously!

I walked around an exhibition with my mother, it was modernist oil paintings, lots of layers and texture and there was a 13 year old boy with his mother and he whispered “I just really want to touch it, I won’t but I really want to”, I just thought “I feel ya bro”. Hands in pockets at all times.

Story time! Several years back, I was at the Art Institute in Chicago’s modern wing. I was looking at a piece (a bunch of decorated and painted chairs, iirc) when I saw a man reach across the barrier, grab a chair and shake it while yelling “Look at how sturdy these are, hun!”

As long as I can still touch myself at the museum, we’re fine.