FRAGMENTS THAT SPEAK

It’s simple, really. When you’re in a gallery, don’t touch the art.

I worked at an art museum for a few years and I spent a lot of time keeping visitors from poking at canvases, smudging plexiglass, tripping on sculptures and sitting on things clearly labeled “DO NOT SIT.”

Yet when I walked into the Art Complex Museum in Duxbury, Massachusetts to cover “New England Mosaic Society: Ten Years on the Cutting Edge,” I forgot all about my years of telling folks to “please step back from the artwork.”