Outside the Rachel Whiteread exhibition at Tate Britain (till 21 January) are some sculptures she chose, including this 1967 piece by Barry Flanagan. The instruction caught my eye -
... and was repeated here and there within the exhibition ...
I like the blue lines where you dare not cross. I was helping out at the at museum years ago and my job was to be at the rear of a tour group and keep them from wandering about. Well, we came to one area and a fellow reached out and started tapping on a piece. He said as he tapped "I wonder what this is made out of". There are signs all over the place not to touch the art. I went over and nicely told him he was suppose to touch, but he kept tapping. He finally quit after I reminded him twice. Then one time a parent lost track of his three year old and the next thing the kid was crawling thru a Donald Judd sculpture that was a square tube lined with green Plexiglas. Thank goodness the kid did not scratch the Plexiglas.
I like the blue lines where you dare not cross. I was helping out at the at museum years ago and my job was to be at the rear of a tour group and keep them from wandering about. Well, we came to one area and a fellow reached out and started tapping on a piece. He said as he tapped "I wonder what this is made out of". There are signs all over the place not to touch the art. I went over and nicely told him he was suppose to touch, but he kept tapping. He finally quit after I reminded him twice. Then one time a parent lost track of his three year old and the next thing the kid was crawling thru a Donald Judd sculpture that was a square tube lined with green Plexiglas. Thank goodness the kid did not scratch the Plexiglas.
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