Artgoers Gone Wild
“It was crazy,” said attendee Kathleen Christians, 39. “People were shoving people over. People were getting sick, screaming, shouting, messing with the artwork.”
A group of four young men climbed onto “Standing Woman,” a tall, bronze sculpture of a goddess-like woman with exaggerated features by early 20th-century American artist Gaston Lachaise.
“They were standing on it, grabbing the boobs, and somebody was just taking pictures with a cell phone,” said Laura Collins, 35.
You’ve undoubtedly heard about the MFA’s First Fridays, where they serve cocktails and play jazz while Boston’s single bourgeoisie hobs and nobs. Well, one “Martini Madness” event at a Milwaukee museum got a little too mad. (Hat tip: JL)
Maybe from now on the MFA will stick with their Elegant Afternoon Tea instead. (If they have to put “elegant” in the title, is it?)
