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In reply to the discussion: 5 year old's touch sends on-loan sculpture crashing to floor. Kansas City bills parents 132K [View all]bitterross
(4,066 posts)The wedding reception wasn't being held in the space where the art was. The kid was allowed to get away from the parents.
You cannot expect other people to always look out for your kids. It is perfectly reasonable to expect that you can put something on display and not have it climbed upon.
I hope the insurance company prevails because it is certainly negligence on the part of the parents. The kid probably can't read and there even if it were cordned off the kid would probably have gone under the ropes anyway. They clearly have not been taught that the whole world is NOT their personal playground.
My parents taught us to not touch things from before that age and we obeyed.
How do you know the center didn't secure it in some way. It's a glass sculpture. Maybe there was no way to do more than they did and not compromise or damage it. Are they supposed to not display art because they can't count on parents keeping their children under control? Are they supposed to deprive everyone else because one set of parents can't make their kid behave?