Confessions of a Gallery Guard: It’s Never the Kids. At Least, Not in the Way You Think.

I’m not being sarcastic, either.

S. Armstrong
5 min readAug 27, 2021
A child sitting on a bench in a minimalist art gallery.
Photo by Aaina Sharma on Unsplash

I know, shocker, right?

Okay, yeah, sometimes kids touch things. They don’t know any better, it happens. Most people, though, assume that it’s always the kids, and before I became a guard, so did I! being someone who…

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S. Armstrong

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