{"id":1161,"date":"2009-10-08T22:24:01","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T05:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/10\/go_ahead_and_lick_the_art\/"},"modified":"2009-10-08T22:24:01","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T05:24:01","slug":"go_ahead_and_lick_the_art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/10\/go_ahead_and_lick_the_art.html","title":{"rendered":"Go ahead and lick the art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattleartmuseum.org\/visit\/OSP\/default.asp\">Olympic Sculpture Park<\/a> opened and visitors were shocked, shocked, that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattleartmuseum.org\/\">Seattle Art Museum<\/a> asked them <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/imgres?imgurl=http:\/\/jessicarae2008.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/04\/lucas-3.jpg&amp;imgrefurl=http:\/\/jessicarae2008.wordpress.com\/2008\/04\/28\/lucas-samaras\/&amp;usg=__cVda8G_NW34AQZQ2cOJgeazBFdo=&amp;h=480&amp;w=474&amp;sz=51&amp;hl=en&amp;start=1&amp;sig2=sWX5cmaZaSVEtfALnjgirA&amp;tbnid=ADnvMkid6mhM7M:&amp;tbnh=129&amp;tbnw=127&amp;prev=\/images%3Fq%3Dlucas%2Bsamaras%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den&amp;ei=LsXOSsavEZzmsAOs-dW7Dg\">not to touch<\/a> the art? <\/p>\n<p>The Onion has a fabulous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/news\/struggling_museum_now_allowing?utm_source=a-section\">satire<\/a> on the subject, via <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/culturemonster\/\">Culture Monste<\/a>r.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"oniondontouch.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/oniondontouch.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"181\" width=\"402\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gerard Schmidt, a retired banker who lives near the Met, said he had never much cared for museums until he was given the chance to manhandle one of Monet&#8217;s Water Lilies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At first it just looked like a picture of a bunch of lily pads, but then I started scraping at it with my pocket knife and the whole painting just sort of spoke to me,&#8221; Schmidt said. &#8220;For the first time, I finally understand what Monet was trying to get across in her work.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when the Olympic Sculpture Park opened and visitors were shocked, shocked, that the Seattle Art Museum asked them not to touch the art? The Onion has a fabulous satire on the subject, via Culture Monster. Gerard Schmidt, a retired banker who lives near the Met, said he had never much cared for museums until [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}