Met Revises Its Hirst Shark Warning

Although Picasso's "Gertrude Stein" has been exiled from the Metropolitan Museum's modern art galleries to the new 19th- and early 20th-century European galleries, she's just a few steps away, across the hall, from Jaws, who is temporarily menacing the contemporary art galleries.

So I went to check whether what I have heard is true: That Damien Hirst's visiting shark is no longer being patrolled and upstaged by a large, admonitory sign that was posted on a shiny pole, right beside it. I first reported on the freestanding competing object here, but was not then permitted to photograph it in the gallery (so I used a wall-mounted substitute to give an idea of its appearance).

Sure enough, the annoying object is gone, replaced by two discreet wall-mounted warnings (actual photo):

And I'm also hearing that visitors are digitally harpooning the beast, anyway, so maybe the guards are being less aggressive about enforcement.