Don't Take Your Selfie Stick to the Guggenheim
Or any museum. Or anywhere, ever.
By John Wenz
Floris Oosterveld / Flickr
Look, we understand. We know you want to go to the Guggenheim to get a selfie with that Renoir. But don't bring your selfie stick.
The Guggenheim is now one of many New York City museums to ban these symbols of rampant image-crafting. The gallery doesn't allow photography anyway, but it's a lot easier to confiscate somebody's stupid selfie stick than their phone. The Museum of Modern Art does allow photography, but it's opting to ban the sticks, citing safety reasons, meaning you'll have to make that Matisse selfie happen the old-fashioned way.The Frick, another New York art museum, explicitly forbids them.
It's not hard to see the logic. In a crowded museum, selfie sticks a nuisance at best, and a great way to poke out an eye or poke a hole in a priceless work of art at worst. While we're not going to call their users intense narcissists, we're also in no rush to get smacked in the face while trying to appreciate art.
Source: Gothamist
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