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For ENRICHING the experience by showing an understanding of the design elements of the art? smh some museums just don’t know when they’ve succeeded in imparting both understanding and appreciation for the source material
- They might be lying about it for the memes.
- If they did get kicked out, it was probably a single grumpy security guard and not necessarily representative of the museum’s actual stance
- They also didn’t mention the noises they were making. I don’t actually know what noises they were making but I’m not sure it’s possible to have fun posing as statues without saying anything or making nonverbal noises
They might be lying about it for the memes.
I mean, I presume they weren’t ACTUALLY kicked out, I’m just going along with the meme XD
It was because the guy playing Jesus didn’t really lean into it by taking his clothes off. Can’t have these damn casuals ruining the vibe.
That’s crazy. At uni, we did an installation for a museum that wanted visitors to do this. A camera would film them and assign a percentage of accuracy of hitting the pose.
87%
We got lectured by a museum volunteer in Greece. My wife took my picture as I imitated the tragedy face next to one.
Example:
She said it wasn’t respectful to their culture and to please not post it on the internet.
I thought those faces were about theater, so mimicking them would make total sense, but whatever.
Give Greece a bad review on Yelp, it’s the American way.
I saw that happen while in Greece also. I think part of it is trying to preserve the actual purpose of a museum rather than let it devolve into a building full of props for social media posts.
Oh no, I do hope museums don’t get more documented and popular, we need art and history to remain distant and elitist.
Yes, and how dare he mock the history of western theater by way of performative memetics as a form of social commentary and entertainment…in public no less!
There is a middle ground. Photographs of the objects themselves is almost always allowed. What is not great is trying to get a turn in a popular museum to view a particular piece, but you can’t get a clear look because some people need to get a perfect pose for the gram. A lot of these museums in Greece that do this do not lack for visitors; it’s often the opposite.
That museum owes you all an apology,
There will be no enjoyment here! Take your happiness elsewhere!
