Kiwi
03-11-2007, 03:56 AM
Just a few pieces of advice
1. You MUST check your bag, and your water and your books and your everything more often than not. If you do not, its an exception to the rule, always always ask.
2. You may not take Food and or Drinks into the Gallery unless you are told that you can. That includes museli bars, coffee and lollipops. No food, no drink, period. Dont tell me you didnt see the sign.
3. You may not take a camera into the Gallery spaces! I dont care if you wont use a flash, I dont care if its on your cell phone. The gallery staff will confiscate the entire roll of film from you and/or prove that you have deleted the photographs from your phone or digital camera, to our satisfaction not yours. The images you are so carelessly destroying are copyrighted and not to you! The flash compromises our lighting levels which we have ensured the owners of the art that we will maintain. Yes thats why is so freaking dark sometimes ok, and dont complain about that either.
4. Treat the Gallery space like a library, your children may NOT run around! You may not scream and shout or laugh or disturb the other guests in anyway.
5. DO NOT TOUCH! anything, I dont care if a painting falls off the freaking wall, you leave it the hell alone and come and get a staff member. You do not press buttons, you do not try and adjust the volume on tv sets and you absolutly must not touch the art work. I will chop your fingers off.
6. If your behaviour is deemed inappropriate, the gallery staff will come and correct you, do not argue with us, do not try and explain your behaviour, do not tell me this is a public building or a free country. You will stop, or you will be forcibly removed. The art is more important than you are.
7. We are watching you. Even the smallest nook and cranny has a camera trained on it, and we have at least one person (and up to four) looking at any one time for behaviour to be deemed inappropriate.
8. Do not make snarky comments about the price of entry, its not even half the price of a movie and far better for your soul and education. You are a philistine if you dont think that culture is important. Try, please, try to stretch your mind.
9. If you dont like it, be respectful, if you do like it, be respectful. The comment cards are not there for cuss words, all you do is show how narrowminded and crude you are.
10. The most important rule, no one forced you to come to the Art Gallery, the people who work there, LOVE art, and to hear you tell them that your three year old can do better than this, its the same as complaining to a gas station attendant about the price of gas. We just dont need to hear it! By the way, no they cant and neither can you for that matter.
11. When you shop at the store in an art gallery, you are basically making a donation to the art gallery. Do not complain about how expensive artist product is, and then complain that we have alot of mass produced stuff. Our bread and butter is tacky souvenirs, not enough people apprciate the work (and worth) of artistian product and ar'nt prepared to pay the price point. You cant have it both ways!
1. You MUST check your bag, and your water and your books and your everything more often than not. If you do not, its an exception to the rule, always always ask.
2. You may not take Food and or Drinks into the Gallery unless you are told that you can. That includes museli bars, coffee and lollipops. No food, no drink, period. Dont tell me you didnt see the sign.
3. You may not take a camera into the Gallery spaces! I dont care if you wont use a flash, I dont care if its on your cell phone. The gallery staff will confiscate the entire roll of film from you and/or prove that you have deleted the photographs from your phone or digital camera, to our satisfaction not yours. The images you are so carelessly destroying are copyrighted and not to you! The flash compromises our lighting levels which we have ensured the owners of the art that we will maintain. Yes thats why is so freaking dark sometimes ok, and dont complain about that either.
4. Treat the Gallery space like a library, your children may NOT run around! You may not scream and shout or laugh or disturb the other guests in anyway.
5. DO NOT TOUCH! anything, I dont care if a painting falls off the freaking wall, you leave it the hell alone and come and get a staff member. You do not press buttons, you do not try and adjust the volume on tv sets and you absolutly must not touch the art work. I will chop your fingers off.
6. If your behaviour is deemed inappropriate, the gallery staff will come and correct you, do not argue with us, do not try and explain your behaviour, do not tell me this is a public building or a free country. You will stop, or you will be forcibly removed. The art is more important than you are.
7. We are watching you. Even the smallest nook and cranny has a camera trained on it, and we have at least one person (and up to four) looking at any one time for behaviour to be deemed inappropriate.
8. Do not make snarky comments about the price of entry, its not even half the price of a movie and far better for your soul and education. You are a philistine if you dont think that culture is important. Try, please, try to stretch your mind.
9. If you dont like it, be respectful, if you do like it, be respectful. The comment cards are not there for cuss words, all you do is show how narrowminded and crude you are.
10. The most important rule, no one forced you to come to the Art Gallery, the people who work there, LOVE art, and to hear you tell them that your three year old can do better than this, its the same as complaining to a gas station attendant about the price of gas. We just dont need to hear it! By the way, no they cant and neither can you for that matter.
11. When you shop at the store in an art gallery, you are basically making a donation to the art gallery. Do not complain about how expensive artist product is, and then complain that we have alot of mass produced stuff. Our bread and butter is tacky souvenirs, not enough people apprciate the work (and worth) of artistian product and ar'nt prepared to pay the price point. You cant have it both ways!