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Watching the paintings being removed from the WH,
I can't get past this:
Unless the paintings and frames are fakes, they should NEVER be touched without white cotton gloves. A museum would lose it's accreditation and funding immediately for this.
(pictured: FINE ART)
I can't get past this:
Unless the paintings and frames are fakes, they should NEVER be touched without white cotton gloves. A museum would lose it's accreditation and funding immediately for this.
(pictured: FINE ART)
In an accredited Fine Art Museum, you need an MFA (Masters of Fine Art) to be a guard or an art handler.
My ex (who is black and with whom I was once pulled over and held for 45 minutes for going through a yellow light) was Chief Preparator of Art...
(pictured: ACCREDITATION)
My ex (who is black and with whom I was once pulled over and held for 45 minutes for going through a yellow light) was Chief Preparator of Art...
(pictured: ACCREDITATION)
at a prestigious art museum, & turned down offers from the Guggenheim & the Whitney. I learned a lot from him. He'd often fly to Germany to authenticate a piece to be purchased by endowment and then accompany the piece back to the museum.
(pictured: PRESTIGE)
(pictured: PRESTIGE)
Once, late for a flight bc of a bad accident, he was detained for running while black w/ a crated painting marked MONET & was detained, but when security got a call from his boss, the President of that MFA, they apologized profusely.
(pictured: AIRPORT LOUNGE)
(pictured: AIRPORT LOUNGE)
Students vied for his gilding intern program & if any of his students touched a gilded frame without gloves, even just once, they were OUT.
THIS is why I cannot believe I just saw a few guys moving paintings in gilded frames...
(pictured: MING ART MOVERS)
THIS is why I cannot believe I just saw a few guys moving paintings in gilded frames...
(pictured: MING ART MOVERS)
with their bare hands.
Tho, this IS the trump admin & I doubt any of them know much abt fine art.
I was the art editor for an Utne Award-winning glossy Art& Culture magazine. All of this experience is the source of my info.
(pictured: BARE HANDS)
Tho, this IS the trump admin & I doubt any of them know much abt fine art.
I was the art editor for an Utne Award-winning glossy Art& Culture magazine. All of this experience is the source of my info.
(pictured: BARE HANDS)
The moral of the story is that this admin is cheap, tacky, grifty, sleazy, CLASS-FREE, clueless, and more clueless.
(pictured: TASTEFULNESS)
(pictured: TASTEFULNESS)
I found a still image of what I was watching when I started cringing...
Voila!
I really get queasy seeing these pics.
My own sculptures were always handled with white gloves though they were not delicate. It's just how things are done with real art.
The gloves denote the diff between gallery and museum.
My own sculptures were always handled with white gloves though they were not delicate. It's just how things are done with real art.
The gloves denote the diff between gallery and museum.
Voila!
"The skin secretes oils and metabolic wastes, including various salts and urea, and these react aggressively with some materials causing irreversible damage."
https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/Resources/e-learning/handling-museum-objects/s01p03.html
"The skin secretes oils and metabolic wastes, including various salts and urea, and these react aggressively with some materials causing irreversible damage."
https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/Resources/e-learning/handling-museum-objects/s01p03.html
The highlighter tool got away from me... 
https://fineartshippers.com/which-gloves-to-choose-for-art-handling/
https://fineartshippers.com/which-gloves-to-choose-for-art-handling/
More info on handling art.
The guards at museums? They MUST have an MFA to get that job. http://www.welpakcorp.com/inside-the-career-art-handler/
The guards at museums? They MUST have an MFA to get that job. http://www.welpakcorp.com/inside-the-career-art-handler/
