The November 27 issue of the New Yorker (featuring four different covers by the astounding Chris Ware) has a short “Talk of the Town” piece on a program at MOMA that allows blind visitors to hear lectures on sculptures and other works in the collection … and then allows them to touch the art.

The next stop was a series of sculptures by Matisse—five heads of Jeannette. A sign next to them read “Please Do Not Touch.” Parsa described the progression from one head to the next. Then everybody put on polyethylene gloves and began touching. The gloves made a rustling sound. This group tended to start with the small features and proceed to a fuller caress of the entire head, a sense of the whole proceeding from its parts.

Seems like a fitting first post for a blog whose title was inspired by small signs posted liberally throughout the Tacoma Art Museum.

New Yorker (11.27.2006) > Talk of the Town > Do Not Touch