BlogBack: Informed Guards Make Up for Scant Text at Guggenheim Show

Guggenheim Museum fan Tom Frenkel responds (belatedly) to Guggenheim’s Extraordinary Spanish Extravaganza (now closed):
You rightly comment that there is little explication of the paintings on the walls. However, I was pleasantly shocked to find that many of the museum guards were young people who knew their stuff (art history majors?). I asked two or three of them some reasonably searching questions (including the story behind the Zurbarán “Uneaten Meat” painting) and got really good answers. Nice change from the usual museum security people I see other places, who often look and act like warehouse nightwatch people.