I worked in a modern art museum as security. I had someone ask me is it was art or a bench. "Just a bench". There were some random wood art in the floor of that room.
In one exhibit there was an art teeter-totter, that had a prominent sign on a post not to sit. This sign was noticed by the woman who placed her toddler on one side before I interjected with an "excuse me". She turned beet red. We all want to...
I've done this; the security lady aggressively shouted at me and frantically pointed at a small sign on the other side of the exhibit. Since some exhibits were "please DO touch" interactive I thought it wasn't that bad of a mistake but she disagreed. I'm guessing she responded to strongly because I was far from the first person to make this mistake, which is a good indication that your design sucks...
"You must be this tall and clairvoyant to enter".
Still not as bad as the traffic controller who physically assaulted me because I failed to see the "stop sign" given in the car lane on the other end of the road from my bicycle in the bicycle lane... Ran up to me and pushed me off my bike shouting "PEOPLE HAVE BEEN IGNORING THIS ALL NIGHT AND I'M SICK OF IT!" ... yeah, because what you're doing makes no sense mate...
I have a friend who works security at an art museum. He gets asked the same question about some benches. He likes to respond with "I won't answer whether it's art or not, but I'll say you are allowed to sit on it."
Hah, I remember seeing that at the Guggenheim. You could actually use it, if you were willing to wait in line. If I remember correctly I was following a nice tour at the time focused, appropriately enough, on sculpture, so our little group just peeked in on the toilet when it was between active users.
The piece was by Maurizio Cattelan and called “America”. Cattelan is just absolutely hilarious; he also did stuff like putting a face-down Pinnochio into the fountain at the bottom of the Guggenheim lobby, making it look like he had jumped from one of the balconies—the visual was incredible :P
In one exhibit there was an art teeter-totter, that had a prominent sign on a post not to sit. This sign was noticed by the woman who placed her toddler on one side before I interjected with an "excuse me". She turned beet red. We all want to...
That job was boring but had its moments.