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Art News: Selfie 'Pandemic' in Museums Is Harming Art, Says Insurer

By David Schonauer   Tuesday February 27, 2024

Specialist insurer Hiscox says in a recent report that museum visitors taking selfies in museums are damaging valuable paintings, objects, and installations by walking into them backwards. Hiscox’s head of art and private clients, Robert Read, dubbed the phenomenon “a pandemic of selfies” because the consequences are happening at prominent …

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