Kids and Art Galleries

Young kids are great. They are entertaining and full of energy and can be very cute...BUT something seems go go wrong when they are near an art gallery. Whilst travelling around Europe with my older sister last year, we visited one of London's  galleries, the Tate Modern. It was a Saturday afternoon and there were literally thousands of people at the gallery, and not just people but a lot of families with their yound kids.
Amongst the pieces being exhibited at the time was Ai Weiwei's work, "sunflower seeds". This is a beautiful work made up of ten tonnes of porcelain sunflower seed replicas that are presented in a pile on the floor in a perfect circle. Now the young children in the gallery, whether it was because they had been there all day or were hyped up on sugar or something, were all going feral. Running around chasing each other and trying to make their parents as frustrated as possible and not only that, putting the works of art being displayed in danger. One child in particular, decided it would be awesome to climb over the small rope border that protected Ai Weiwei's work. Luckily his parent/s finally caught up with him and got him out before the small porcelain seeds had time to get stood on or destroyed by the boy. Seeing in the news the other day that the Tate has actually bought some of the seeds, reminded me of this young boy and how children and art galleries dont seem to mix.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17256535