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There is a sadistic installation at the MoMA, which is a single, fine steel filament suspended from ceiling to floor. There is a small weight on the floor holdi

There is a sadistic installation at the MoMA, which is a single, fine steel filament suspended from ceiling to floor. There is a small weight on the floor holding it taught, but otherwise the wire is nearly invisible as you walk through the space. I imagine that is very much the point, but I do not know whether installing it right in the middle of a busy room was also a directive from the artist. In any case, the end result of these perplexing decisions is that a security guard has to be dedicated to stand next to this single piece, all day long, advising people not to bump into it. I cannot imagine a job more Sisyphean.

pavel_lishin 10y ago
> I cannot imagine a job more Sisyphean. For what it's worth, if you go to see (or interact) with Maurizio Cattelan's "America"[1] at the Guggenheim in New York, it is a staffer's job to stand by the door and check on it after every person's visit. (After my turn, I asked the staffer if that was the weirdest job they'd ever had to do, and she said that it wasn't; perhaps she had previously worked at the MoMA.) 1: https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/maurizio-cattelan-america https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/maurizio-cattelan-amer...
- shalmanese 10y ago
  The SFMOMA had a Bruce Conner exhibition recently that displayed his artwork TOUCH/DO NOT TOUCH [1] which had to have a guard stationed out front full time whose sole job was telling patrons they couldn't touch the artwork that said "touch" on it. 1: https://www.moma.org/m/tours/55/tour_stops/687?locale=en https://www.moma.org/m/tours/55/tour_stops/687?locale=en