Dear MEL Topic Readers,
What’s wrong with this picture?
A placard is just a brief written notice or explanation
for public display. In a museum, you often find ones below or beside artworks.
They are usually written in the main language of the place and often accompanied
by another common language of the region for the visitors. But they are so plain
and generic that they don’t always present the insight or information that the
visitors want to learn. So, more museums nowadays offer audio devices or mobile
apps to provide more in-depth and intriguing information of the artworks with
more language options. Accordingly, you might have seen more visitors holding
and gazing their smartphones in front of famous pictures or sculptures, but you
never know what they are looking at in their smartphones.
Here is a photo of three girls sitting on a
bench just in front of a famous painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in
New York. What can you tell from the photo? Are these young girls checking the
info about the artwork or just chatting with their friends? Some say it’s a
shame to use phones in the museum, but others argue that nothing is wrong with or
unusual about it. Nowadays, when people see something unusual or extraordinary,
they tend to focus more on shooting photos or a video of it rather than watching
it in their own eyes.
Enjoy reading the article and seeing the
photo, and then guess what these girls are doing. It seems as mysterious as the
famous smile of Mona Lisa.
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