Besides the concert, we enjoyed browsing through the nearby bookstore/coffee shop. Sandwiched between this and MOCA is the Jacksonville Public Library. And across the street? A pleasant city park that reminded me a little of Gainesville's Bo Diddley Community Plaza (formerly the downtown plaza). Before the concert, we walked through the MOCA art gallery. Unfortunately, their policy is against picture taking; my photos are thus of the outside, which I thought was interesting enough anyway. Here are some of them, including one of the bridge spanning St. John's River.
I'm always puzzled when art museums ask people not to take photographs. Sharing the artwork farther and wider seems the best use of the art.
ReplyDeleteI'm used to "no photos" policies for special exhibitions (though I still think it odd), but it's unusual for a whole museum to have that policy. All the places I'm used to — the National Gallery of Art, the National Portrait Gallery & the American Art Museum, the Phillips Collection, the Corcoran, and others in DC; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim, the Whitney, and others in New York; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Legion of Honor and de Young Museums in San Francisco; the Art Institute of Chicago; and on, and on — all permit photography in the main exhibits.
As they should. (They do ask people not to use flash, though.)