01-20-2005, 06:13 PM
>Minor nit.
>The museum in question was the North Carolina Museum of Art featuring artwork on loan from the BMA not the Baltimore Museum of Art itself.
Ah, thanks for that correction. I'm still scratching my head trying to find a good reason to forbid sketching. Certain sketching materials limitations due to possible damage\obstruction is one thing. But copyright issues is frankly, a crock. So is the threat of 'forgery' by sketching. If they're so worried about damage, why bother loaning and displaying these pieces at all?
I love to be in that meeting where someone had the brilliant idea of coming up with 'impeding traffic' as a reason.