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Zebediah:
I was curious, so I googled "LACMA". I had correctly guessed "Los Angeles County", but hadn't expected the last two letters to stand for "Museum of Art".

Why was there a padded room in an art museum? If you have to ask, you just don't get modern art.

westrim:
I decided to look up "lacma padded room" and found it as part of an exhibit called Made in California: NOW that was explicitly kid friendly. It was open from September 2000 through September 2001, so how's that for timing.

Here's a short entry about the room itself.
http://web.archive.org/web/20100714004309/http://www.lacma.org/MICnow/artists/Kaprow/kaprows.htm
Here's videos of the exhibit in glorious 2000 240x180. The room is part 5.
http://www.netropolitan.org/ll/mic_video.html

So it was basically part of helping kids appreciate art and burn off energy by finally getting to literally bounce off the walls so their parents could look at stuff. It was apparently designed by a father and son art team. I recall pillow fighting with my dad, jumping off the ladder, and generally having fun until I had to pull him away because the museum was closing.

Storel:

--- Quote from: Zebediah on 21 Jun 2013, 16:43 ---Why was there a padded room in an art museum? If you have to ask, you just don't get modern art.
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Hahahaha! :laugh: You win the thread for today.


--- Quote from: Westrim on 21 Jun 2013, 19:07 ---I decided to look up "lacma padded room" and found it as part of an exhibit called Made in California: NOW that was explicitly kid friendly. It was open from September 2000 through September 2001, so how's that for timing.

Here's a short entry about the room itself.
http://web.archive.org/web/20100714004309/http://www.lacma.org/MICnow/artists/Kaprow/kaprows.htm
Here's videos of the exhibit in glorious 2000 240x180. The room is part 5.
http://www.netropolitan.org/ll/mic_video.html

So it was basically part of helping kids appreciate art and burn off energy by finally getting to literally bounce off the walls so their parents could look at stuff. It was apparently designed by a father and son art team. I recall pillow fighting with my dad, jumping off the ladder, and generally having fun until I hat to pull him away because the museum was closing.

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Ahhh, that makes sense.


--- Quote from: www.lacma.org ---Crane-Kaprow wanted to design a space where kids could hang out, have pillow fights, and not get hurt.
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They must have been bummed when you managed to get hurt anyway.  :-(

westrim:

--- Quote from: Storel on 21 Jun 2013, 19:49 ---They must have been bummed when you managed to get hurt anyway.  :-(

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Eh, it was just a scratch, not full on bleeding, and it wasn't reported or anything. If I recall correctly, I was trying to find their moor points when it happened, so I was digging behind where I shouldn't have.

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