Bans on sketching in museums

[kupfernigk]

@AndrewTF

Gotta pay the heat and lights. And compete for the public’s edutainment dollars with movies, concerts, monster truck shows, etc.

This is the V&A. It was set up (along with the Science Museum and the Natural History Museum) as part of the Victorian (more properly Albertian) drive for education. The whirring sound is Albert trying to spin his memorial.

[coherent_light]

Stories like this frustrate me. No photography also bothers me, because it’s not like we can visit pop out and visit the Field Museum anytime we need to see a mammoth skeleton exhibit.

But no sketching? Seriously? Artists are museum patrons, too.

[jhbadger]

@frauenfelder

Too many art museums these days think of themselves as extensions of the gift shop

Too many museums period think that way. Not to mention cheesy extra charge “special exhibitions” with little connection to the supposed subject matter of the museum.

[kupfernigk]

@gmoke

Years ago, I was stopped by a guard at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington DC when I attempted to sketch a Brancusi with a pen. “Only pencil is allowed,” he said,

That wasn’t a guard, that was an art critic.

[miasm]

Thank you valued customer, we hope you enjoyed viewing these exhibits.
On your way out through the gift shop, you may feel a slight stinging sensation as your memories of the museum are burned out of your brain with our copyright-compliance x-ray laser.

[gmoke]

Nah, he wore a guard’s uniform not a critic’s superciliousness.

[kupfernigk]

@FunkDaddy

Late Stage Capitalism

See also the entire modern art market.

[L_Mariachi]

For extra credit, Costco is a union shop, with the support of upper management to boot.

[K_Vo]

This is not a blanket ban. You can sketch all over the museum and in many of the temporary exhibitions at the V&A. Visitors have been asked not to sketch in this exhibition as it was one of the conditions placed on a loan object from a particular lender.