Van Gogh's the man

On Sunday, Saejin and I got up early thinking we could avoid any lines for the Van Gogh exhibition but a hung over Chanyeong was late meeting us so we ended up being just slightly ahead of the mob and tucked just behind the early birds. We slipped into line at the bottom of the hill and from here the line wandered up and around for a couple of hours.


Once in the building there was a TV screen set up showing proper museum etiquette. It taught patrons to, stand back from the art, fold their arms before nodding and raising a single hand up to their face where they then whispered to the person next to them sentences you'd never admit to saying in public. Of course the video had a near empty gallery. Let's just say what the video wanted and what the mob of people produced were two different stories. I really want to write bad things about how people view art here but I was too impressed by the number of people willing to put their time in line and give the art a go.