Artists and Security Guards

Artists that use or have worked with Museum Security Guards

At the Walker Center - Tino Senghal

Guarded View - Fred Wilson - Whitney

Do the four museum-guard uniforms on dark-skinned but headless manikins (Guarded View, 1991) mean something more or something less in a museum in Harlem, where the guards, also black, are more casually dressed? Why does a spiffy uniform equal invisible? Why do we have to read the catalogue to find out that Wilson once gave a gallery lecture at the Whitney dressed as a guard? Why did people he had talked to a few hours earlier not recognize him until he began speaking? What does it mean that Guarded View is now in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum?

http://www.artsjournal.com/artopia/2004/05/fred_wilsons_quest.html

New Museum - Spatial Project http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/249

Diary of a Museum Security Guard - http://www.weeblackskelf.co.uk/cordsuit/index.php?page=Clip-On+Tie%3A+The+Diary+of+a+New+York+Art+Museum+Security+Guard

Fred Wilson - Tour of Whitney as Security Guard http://nashermuseumblogs.org/?p=1080