Seattle Art Museum can lighten up, and other advice

PI Arts Reporter has some good advice for Seattle Art Museum, which comes off as a little uptight, especially in their pencil only rules.

My biggest pet peeve is the Olympic Sculpture park is their attendants (and imposing signage) to make sure no one touches the momentous steel, iron and rock pieces of public art. There has to be a way to avoid the graffiti and other destruction but also engage audiences with public art- some educational component that doesn't come off like a nasty librarian smashing knuckles with a ruler and saying shuuuuush repeatedly. I do believe we can live in a culture where everyday people know how to respect public art.

A great suggestion from the same article is for SAM to follow On the Boards in blogging, this would be even better combined with their 'My SAM Collection' feature. Imagine, amateur curators and art critics online everywhere (and gee, engaging with art while they are at it).