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Museum Guards: Not Just Staring Blankly After All
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Sabrina Jaszi
Published Mar 6, 2010
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Ever wonder what museum security guards are thinking as they stand next to great works of art for days, weeks and months on end? A new journal, Sw!pe Magazine: Guards’ Matter, addresses the question from the perspective of the workers themselves, reports the Times. It’s put together by 35 guards at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, themselves working and aspiring artists in all different media from comics to photography (image gallery here). To accompany the release an exhibition of their work will be on view through tomorrow at 25 CPW Gallery at 62nd Street and Central Park West. “Being surrounded by the art, if you’re not helping someone, you’re just thinking about your work” said one featured artist, Jack Laughner. “I got my master’s at the Met,” he quipped.
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