Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/01/28/no-one-stopped-this-museum-vis.html
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Curator cosplay never pays.
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Its not up to the museum patrons to intervene. There’s a distinct possibility the painting could’ve been damaged or an innocent party could’ve been hurt if things escalated. After all museums are supposed to have security so i would say that their staff failed to intervene, not the museum goers.
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A true lover of art.
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No one stopped a Russian from taking Crimea? How odd!
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Crimea doesn’t pay
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Crimea river
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I thought the whole bystander effect thing was discredited? Like, it turns out a few people did in fact try to help Kitty Genovese, and it was really just a couple misguided men that turned a blind eye? Or is there another form of it?
In any case, I’m not sure I’d step in if I was at a museum and someone brazenly took something off the wall, and no alarms sounded. And even if some alarm did go off, I’d probably just stick around so I could describe the guy to security. Not gonna risk my health over a piece of art.
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Ocean’s One
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Who knows what’s in his pockets.
I value my life more than a one million dollar painting finding its way back to a museum, and apparently those people did too.
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It would have been easier and more fun if he’d wheeled in another painting from some nobody and put that up in its place. That and a clipboard, piece of cake!
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Haha! The Clipboard Effect!
If the guy looked like he knew what he was doing, had a “I belong here” attitude and a serious face, it’s amazing what a criminal can get away with.
For all anyone knew, he was removing it for cleaning!
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In the Maiden Heist, Christopher Walken’s character dreams of fighting off a gang of art thieves.
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that’s exactly what i would think if i saw this happening, too.
EDIT: this also works in reverse – like with guerilla artists putting their artwork IN museums.
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You gotta start somewhere.
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Art installation Removal.
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That sounds a little like this story.
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In Soviet Russia, Art is moved by you.
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Yep, not my job. I’m not putting myself in possible danger and taking on the liability of damaging the painting when they actually pay people to do that.
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Tagging this bystander effect seems erroneous. I suspect the decision to not intervene had less to do with each other not intervening and more to do with assuming he worked there, as I would have. After all, as noted above, the patrons aren’t responsible for the gallery’s security and it would be awkward to stop someone only to discover they did work there.
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