irishTimes
The suspect, who has been a regular visitor at the MoMA, entered the building intending to see a film being screened inside. But his membership had recently been revoked for two separate incidents of disorderly behaviour at the museum. The letter revoking the man’s MoMA membership card had already been sent to him, and when he showed up at 4:15 PM last week, he became upset about not being allowed in. As he attempted to gain entrance by presenting his membership card, which was rejected, the suspect became angry, jumped over the reception desk to attack and stab two female museum employees .. multiple times.
The security guard near the entrance picked up a large binder and threw it at the attacker to distract him. The attacker was still holding his knife when he asked where the security guard’s gun was. Then he ran outside!
Miller said police will locate the man. They have video of the man leaving the museum and were aware of the direction he left. He described the man as a 60 year old male wearing a black jacket, blue surgical mask, a colourfully patterned shirt and hood. Law enforcement officials were investigating the incident, probably easier since the suspect was known to the NYPD because of the previous incidents in the same area. But he did not have an extensive police record. His description was released immediately by the NYPD over division radio units in the area and a search was initiated.
Taking the wounded into ambulances
fortune.com
Alyssa Katz, deputy editor for the local news site The City, went to meet friends at MoMA and was greeted with a stampede of people - the museum was being evacuated. Katz’s friend Mike Rubin, a writer for The New York Times, was waiting for Ms Katz in the lobby when a security guard told his group to leave the building immediately. They were about to walk inside when they saw hundreds of people running out and yelling shooter, shooter. Katz said she had seen New York police officers questioning witnesses. The scene wasn’t frantic; visitors weren’t told what was going on; just to close the exhibits immediately. The emergency was handled very well by the workers and NYPD.
The NYPD released photos of the man wanted for questioning in connection with the stabbings at MoMA Saturday. The individual involved in this incident was already known, so the authorities had good information . But the incident is still unfolding and the investigation is in its early stages. The museum will close in the meantime.
Mayor Eric Adams said he was briefed on the incident, saying that it appeared to be an isolated, criminal incident. He was grateful for the quick work of the first responders. Adams asked for the public's help in locating the individual, asking people to avoid the area while Police continued their investigation. NYC's official emergency management agency informed residents of road closures at the scene near West 53rd St between 5th and 6th Aves.
Police set out caution tapes inside the reception area
artnet news
The NYPD released photos of the man wanted for questioning in connection with the stabbings at MoMA Saturday. The individual involved in this incident was already known, so the authorities had good information . But the incident is still unfolding and the investigation is in its early stages. The museum will close in the meantime.
Mayor Eric Adams said he was briefed on the incident, saying that it appeared to be an isolated, criminal incident. He was grateful for the quick work of the first responders. Adams asked for the public's help in locating the individual, asking people to avoid the area while Police continued their investigation. NYC's official emergency management agency informed residents of road closures at the scene near West 53rd St between 5th and 6th Aves.
artnet news
Apparently some gallery goers are not necessarily the finest, most cultured people in the world as I thought. So what will happen to prevent violence happening again? Airport-type metal detectors used on every person who wants to enter a gallery? Hidden cameras all over the gallery? Guards in every room and service area? Wanted Posters for each banned person, hanging on the front wall? I think not!
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thank you for reading the post. It is interesting that you are an Australian service because just about all the newspaper coverage I read was from overseas. Surely protecting public museums and galleries, staff and visitors, is an issue for every nation.
You often write about stolen art. Do you believe the same issues are involved in paintings stolen off the gallery walls, even if no one is injured by guns or knives?
Joe
galleries have a legal obligation to protect everyone and everything in the building. Hidden cameras all over the gallery and guards in every room are essential to protect paintings, workers and visitors equally well, but thieves are more likely to get their gangs into the building at night. Look for example at Mona Lisa.
https://melbourneblogger.blogspot.com/2012/04/mona-lisa-stolen-in-1911-and-retrieved.html
Precious art objects left in private homes, auction houses, ships, universities etc.. are much more vulnerable.
Good grief! What a story. I hope they find him. Unfortunately these surgical masks makes it hard to identify anyone.
Lisa
Very hard to identify people behind the masks, yes. And talking of an increased sense of anxiety, listen to this. Two days after the crisis at MoMA, I was going into the local shops at lunchtime when I saw 3 police cars and an ambulance parked outside in the car park. All the officers were just standing quietly and chatting together in their Covid masks, but I still didn't want to do my shopping :( So I went home instead :(
It is an isolated incident thank goodness and could easily have happened anywhere. I suppose if he was banned because of previous bad conduct the security should have been more vigilant when he returned and staff able to buzz for speedy assistance. After the dreadful incident we had at the Tate Modern where a man threw a child off the building balcony I despair at the state we are in in the world where people fear reporting people who are suspicious for fear of being labelled as some kind of phobic. The man at the Tate had been identified earlier as acting suspiciously but nobody had taken any notice of reports and his social workers had ignored him when he said a week before that he was going to kill someone. The bomber at the Ariana Grande concert where many people died in Manchester had been noted as suspecious before the bomb was set off but the security guards felt that they would be accused of racism if they said anything about him. We have reached a shameful society where we have to fear this kind of singling out and if mistakes are made in the process everybody should be able to shake hands and move on.
We have had to deal with angry irrational people more of late . Its been very useful to undergo training which moves us from being outraged at how WE are being treated to trying to see things from the the other persons point of view, keeping in mind that everyone has undergone trauma which can make us susceptible to triggers which can in certain situations get out of hand causing even more trauma to all concerned . This doesn't excuse what happened but I think its a paradigm shift which I have found helpful when dealing with some potentially scary people or people who could cause a lot of stress and bother . A lot of this violence is the result of an inability to self soothe and stay calm after being triggered .We really need to understand this a lot more because there seem to be more people around with issues and perhaps disinhibited by the use of drugs like ICE .
Rachel,
I'm grateful for you mentioning the Tate Modern crisis ..which reminds us of the MoMA incident.
A 6 year old French boy was thrown down 30m from the Tate Modern London’s viewing platform. The villain, 17 back in 2019, was convicted of attempted murder and gaoled. The youngster suffered a bleed to the brain and spine fractures, and still cannot walk. I note that the autistic teenager had often warned his carers that he was planning an attack on any child, to get publicity and to spend time in prison. And I understand that the Tate Modern had no reason to act, until the CCTV footage showed him following young children around and looking over railings.
Mem
after two years of disease, endless deaths, isolation, much reduced incomes and brutal wars, I totally agree that the world has changed for previously relatively normal or slightly dodgy people. I have heard my friends curse when buying toilet paper in the supermarket became a horrible ordeal.
But this would-be killer at MoMA left home armed with a nasty weapon. He didn't just scream at the receptionists; he stuck the knife into the women's necks and backs.
Horrifying moment deranged man, 60, leapt over New York's MoMa counter and stabbed two 24-year-old employees after having his $65 museum membership revoked for disorderly conduct.
Watch the video but be warned. It is violent.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10606643/Museum-Modern-Art-evacuated-one-person-stabbed-floor.html
I heard that news story in brief and thought, gee, we were there several years ago and thankfully weren't stabbed. Given it was one person who committed a crime, it sounds like a massive overreaction by authorities to close the museum and put in place extreme measures when one person with a mental illness broke.
Daily Mail
Thank goodness the video captured the attack, in case the criminal is ever brought to court. Although the guards tried to intervene, they didn't manage to protect the two young receptionists.
Andrew
although most crims have a man outside to warn the friend of police presence, and another driver to help him escape in a car, this crim may well have been the only man involved in the MoMA incident. MoMA didn't close for long - just long enough for the authorities to collect all the physical, film and eye witness evidence that was available.
The mental ill health issue remains much tougher to resolve, I think. Examine the MoMA case, and the Tate Modern London crisis that Rachel raised.
Boa tarde. Parabéns pelo seu trabalho.
Others had felt uneasy and reported his odd behaviour that afternoon. The social workers did not take notice of his threats to kill someone. We have this too often here in the UK where the mentally ill are released into the community. The same happened at a seminar in central London not long after and a deranged attendee stabbed to death ay least one person. It had been thought apprpriate to let hin attend .
Luiz
Thank you. I am a historian and rarely comment on current events. But this MoMA crisis raised important issues for all of us, yes.
Rachel
I was only going to address the responsibility of public galleries and museums to protect their workers, precious objects and the visiting public. But the mental health issues seem to be irresolvable. I despair :(
At a seminar in central London that you mentioned, did staff really believe the deranged attendee would start stabbing people? If they did, should he have been checked for weapons and accompanied by a guard?
Hello Hels, How can the police fail to locate this man if the museum knows his name and address via his membership card? These days are becoming increasingly scary, and I can believe that this type of problem is going to increase. I have seen people become angry and upset when a guard told them nicely not to get too near the art, or even worse, when a laser beam was tripped and an buzzer went off. Admittedly, if a museum doesn't want an artwork to be approached, they should place physical barriers in front of it or place it in a glass case, but now museums also have to be responsible for placating disturbed patrons as well as protecting their treasures.
--Jim
Parnassus
nod... MoMA knew his name and address too, from his membership card. But finding a man somewhere across the nation, or indeed abroad, might have been difficult. As it happened, on 1 A.M Tuesday the NYPD captured their suspect in a Philadelphia Greyhound Bus Station. Based on his address and Facebook posts, his bipolar disorder was clear, so we will wait to see how the court handles his mental health issues.
But we shouldn't have to wait to see how treasured collections are protected. Surely every technically skilled 5 year old could seal gallery windows/doors at night, and place objects in an unbreakable glass case as you noted. I understand how bombs and fires can destroy treasures in this day and age, but I cannot understand how small gangs of crims can get away with theft.
Human rights and civil liberties groups prevent common sense logical measures in the UK.
Boa tarde. Uma excelente história forte e esclarecimentos de nossa realidade. Parabéns pelo seu excelente trabalho e matéria.
Random attacks must be so hard to prevent. The large London museums have metal detector arches and bag searches as the norm these days.
Fun60
as sad as it is that we have to put gallery visitors through metal detectors etc, experience shows that more and more security is becoming essential. So your large London museums are very wise.
But have a look at the MoMA footage... noone could stop the villain leaping into the reception area apparently :(
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10606643/Museum-Modern-Art-evacuated-one-person-stabbed-floor.html
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