Bibliographies

“Training of the Guards” By Michelle Falkenstein in ArtNews. May 2008. Vol.1

- “Museum security doesn’t get much attention from the media except when a major artwork is stolen.” (pg 134)

- “Over the years, the function has evolved into an amalgam of trained personnel and electronic protection devices…” (pg. 135)

- Customer service traing, was told to “stay out of sight” (IBID)

- Cultural protection, visitor services (IBID)

- “represent the face of the museum” (pg. 136)

- “They’re going to see vistors before the administration will, if they do at all” (IBID)

- screening process, resume, background check, drug testing, in state training, specialized certification,

- Many rely on the American Society for Industrial Security – Certified Protection Professional (CPP) (pg. 136)

- Permanent, temp, and contract (137)

o Pinkerton and Securitas

o Need Human element to check people out – superior customer service (137)

“Quick, which way to the restroom?”

ArtNews Vol. 93 1994

- Posing as a security guard at the Whitney

- “watch people without disturbing them. No one should get the feeling of being watched.” (pg. 168)

- “We are not just guards, we are guardians.” (Ibid)

- Common questions asked all the time, where is the bathroom?

- Beware of tired people, or of anything (Ibid)

- Famous artists as guards, LeWitt, and Robert Rhyman both guards. (169)

- Take the heat when visitors are disappointed (169)

Guarded view section:

“The Art of War”

San Francisco Bay Guardian

January 22^nd, 2003

Vol. 37, No. 17

Glen Helfand

• 1991 sculpture comprises of four headless manniquens wearing guards’ uniforms from important New York Museums, including the Whitney, the MOMA< MET.
• “taps into racial stereotypes and divisions of labor in the culture industry: museum guard is a vocation primarily performed by people of color” (Pg. 3/6)
• Give in artists tour at the Whitney, part way through he told an audience to meet him downstairs to view some other pieces. While they were assembling, he changed into a guard’s uniform and positioned himself near the elevators. He went completely unrecognized.” (IBID)

“The Changing of the Guards” ArtNews Vol. 100, Number 3, March 2001 148-151.

Carly Berwick

• Docents wear, at times “Ask Me” Buttons (pg. 149)
• “Today, the person hired to make sure art does not get vandalized or stolen often serves a double duty as the person who serves to make visits pleasant.” (Ibid)
• Changing name – Gallery attendant, Protective Security Staff
• “They are security officers, not guards”

New York Times: “Defender, Critic, Watcher: All in One at the MOMA”

John Tierney November 20, 1991 Pg. B. 1.

• At the MOMA guards spend upwards of 2,000 hours a year in the galleries (1/3)
• SG’s notice where, how, what visitors like (2/3)
• Sometimes defend the artists or discuss the art with them (ibid)
• Some become artists themselves and are interested in art in general (3/3)
• Have the legs for it! (3/3)

“How Many Dots on a Seurat? Ask the Museum Docents

Published in the New York Times on April 19, 2000

Author David Masello

• “Some people feel there’s a certain prestige being affiliated with the museum, and they come attached to the idea” (1/2)
• “Docents,” Mr. Eskeridge said, “are the face and the voice and the character of what can be experienced here.” IBID

NEIGHBORHOOD REPORT: SOHO – CITY PEOPLE “A Museum Guard Who Likes What He Knows

By Tanya Mohn, March 11 2001

• Kimball Augustus works at the New Museum of Contemporary Art as a Security Guard.
• “He discovered he was interested in the art he was guarding. He began to chatting up the artists. ½
• Since 1992, the museum has had gatherings of the staff to meet the artists and learn about their work.
• Augustus has a small collection of art at home
• He is part of the art world (1/2)
• An anomaly or how the guard position is changing?

“Hoping to Graduate From Guards to Gauguins”

The New York Times

March 5, 2010

Niko Koppel

• MET Guards, a fair number of the guards are artists yearning for a little exposure for them.
• A group of MET guards stepped into the spotlight with a new art journal called Sw!pe Magazine: Guards Matter and an accompanying exhibit.
• Magazine dedicated to exposing the work of guards and to show that their work matters. See website: http://swipemagazine.com/index.php
• Funded by current or former guards.
• “The drawings, paintings, comics, prints, poetry, and photograp

“Training the Security Officer? A Museum’s Special Needs”

By Steven R. Keller, CCP Steven

• “Museum security officers must have a broad basis of knowledge about the overall concept of ‘protection’ such as basic understanding of the conservation needs of their collection.” (pg. 2)