Hey, I didn’t start this: Highlighted as “the latest museum ‘interactive'” on both the Getty Museum’s twitter page and the twitter page of Max Anderson, director of the Indianapolis Museum, is the purported museum initiative described in a tongue-in-cheek send-up today by The Onion, a spoof publication where every day is April Fools.
Struggling Museum Now Allowing Patrons To Touch Paintings breaks the (phony) story, complete with an on-the-scene “photo,” of how the Metropolitan and other museums are allowing visitors to paw the paintings and even hoist them off the walls.
But CultureGrrl readers know that it’s really Philippe who started all this. Remember this widely published don’t-drop-that-Duccio photo?
And what about Walter Liedtke‘s (almost) fondling “The Milkmaid”?
Please do not show this post to the children. Fortunately, The Onion bears a helpful warning in very small print at the bottom of its webpage:
The Onion is not intended for readers under 18 years of age.
That should definitely take care of it!