The art museum crowd isn't really known for running with stand-up comics. If anything, most people view art in earnest. The hushed atmosphere and high ceilings inside most museums inspire us to muse respectfully in front of the paintings while wearing sophisticated black attire and maybe a beret. However, this unwritten rule of seriousness can lead to some inappropriately hilarious interactions and reactions. Here are The Funniest Yelp Reviews of Art Museums, a collection of irreverent thoughts disclosed by Yelp's wittiest (or most clueless) museum-goers.
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The art museum crowd isn't really known for running with stand-up comics. If anything, most people view art in earnest. The hushed atmosphere and high ceilings inside most museums inspire us to muse respectfully in front of the paintings while wearing sophisticated black attire and maybe a beret. However, this unwritten rule of seriousness can lead to some inappropriately hilarious interactions and reactions. Here are The Funniest Yelp Reviews of Art Museums, a collection of irreverent thoughts disclosed by Yelp's wittiest (or most clueless) museum-goers.
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The International Art Museum of America
20. The International Art Museum of America
Location: San Francisco
Winning line: "In other words, this is a CULT disguised as an art museum."
Location: Boston
Winning line: "If you go find the picture of Paul Revere you'll realize he looks just like Jack Black."
Location: Somerville, Mass.
Winning line: "I'm not sure in the man slurping in the middle of the room was an instillation [sic] piece, or just reading his book."
Location: Los Angeles
Winning line: "This place is like a woman."
Location: Los Angeles
Winning line: "Right now you're having your superficial cake and eating it too, but the day will come when you get your just des(s)erts. And when your come-up becomes your comeuppance, there's not a doubter, hater, lover, user, backer, or supporter on the planet that will give two nuts about a has-been bottom-feeder like you... unless you have a giver."
Location: Chicago
Winning line: "My boyfriend got yelled at for pointing at a spoon."
Location: Chicago
Winning line: "I mean, who wants to go to a museum when all of the fancy people are there? I sure as Hell don't want to listen to them talk about what Monet was FEELING when he did whatever it is he did."
Location: Washington, DC
Winning line: "I spent most of the time planning my escape route, i.e., avoiding creepy security man."
12. Renwick Gallery
Location: Washington, DC
Winning line: "I'm going to call this the 'I've got twenty to thirty minutes to kill on lunch or while waiting for someone to meet me and instead of checking my phone over and over again on the sidewalk like a freak I'm going to inject a little culture into my day with a brief walk around of one of the smallest art galleries I've ever seen' museum."
Location: Washington, DC
Winning line: "If I had a nanny named Mary Poppins I do think she would fancy taking me for a picnic here."
Location: Seattle
Winning line: "It's like the curator is a teenager with ADD that planned the collection layout when his mother called him away from World of Warcraft."
Location: Austin, Texas
Winning line: "Thursdays are always free and it's the 2nd best place for eyeballing young babes. 1st is the grocery store."
Location: Washington, DC
Winning line: "Or maybe look for a guide like the young, read [sic] haired teacher-type I saw with class in tow, spouting insight and wisdom like Old Faithful."
Location: New York
Winning line: "And me coming here at 5am and staying for but a few minutes is a memory that will last a lifetime. Or at least until I die. Oh wait..."
Location: New York
Winning line: "I think the clocks are great. I would like to see more of a collection of clocks. The furniture is interesting and I had an urge to sit on one of the chairs. Of course."
Location: New York
Winning line: "Incidentally, there's a fantastic museum dedicated to Medieval Art in a French Nunnery (moved to NYC brick by brick via 3 years of daily UPS overnight packages)."
Location: New York
Winning line: "Unfortunately, with all that the MoMa [has] become the Best Buy of Electronics and Home Depot of home repair."
Noguchi Museum
2. Noguchi Museum
Location: New York
Winning line: "The garden was lit by the setting sun casting shadows in and around the sculptures and trees. The cooling temperatures and slight breeze made it ideal for sitting outside. Any numbnut with even a small amount of game could have planted a kiss on his date here with a high degree of confidence. I did not."
Location: New York
Winning line: "They have all these programs, like lectures and concerts and stuff that help revive the brain cells that were murdered when you decided to watch a marathon of that reality show you won't admit to your friends that you watch."
