Posh parents defend their child scrambling over Tate Modern scultpture

[editor]

This works on so many level as an outrage machine!

The parents of a child who appalled art-lovers by clambering over a $10m sculpture at Tate Modern have hit back.

Fashion designers Kait Bolongaro, 45, and Stuart Trevor, 47, who founded the All Saints label, said their nine-year-old daughter was simply being “anti-establishment.”

Little Sissi Belle was just “seduced by a ladder of jewel-coloured shelving,” they said.

Mr Trevor added: “Our children have been to all the museums and all the galleries in London and abroad. They have been all around the world and are extremely intelligent and educated and just happened to slide in the bottom of what looks like a row of shelves.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/01/31/tate-modern-sculpture-par_n_4701588.html

 

[Ax^]

kill them, burn the house down and salt the earth..

before the next generation have a chance to breed



*shakes fist at sky*

 

[editor]

That photo shows everything that is wrong with Broken Britain.

 

[chilango]

Fashion designers Kait Bolongaro, 45, and Stuart Trevor, 47, who founded the All Saints label, said their nine-year-old daughter was simply being “anti-establishment.”

What? Was she doing the quenelle on it or something?

 

[_angel_]

Bit of a fuss about nothing, even if the parents seem like arses.

 

[Belushi]

The littlest girl looks okay, the nine year old is on the verge of becoming a twat and there's no hope for the parents or the smug looking lad.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

The sculpture isn't really that exciting and hardly worth £10m.

There's an awful lot of dross in the Tate, especially when it comes to video installations. I'd happily let my children jump up and down on Nick Serota.

Don't feel any particular antipathy or warmth to the family in question.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

What a charming family. I can well imagine that if their 'anti-establishment' child was injured through its brattish behaviour the parent's would be suing the Tate.

 

[_angel_]

You've got to be careful taking pictures of kids without their permission then transmitting it thru social media for everyone to see, I would have thought?

 

[butchersapron]

Who knows where the time goes.This was them just 6 short years ago.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

What kind of arse takes photos of children playing around and puts them on the internet?

 

[wiskey]

I don't see the fuss tbh, children climb on stuff all the time. Art is overrated if children can't engage with it when it's put at their level and has no barriers. People are being precious.

The parents aren't really doing themselves any favours with the 'anti establishment' stuff, but kids are kids.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

I don't see the fuss tbh, children climb on stuff all the time. Art is overrated if children can't engage with it when it's put at their level and has no barriers. People are being precious.

The parents aren't really doing themselves any favours with the 'anti establishment' stuff, but kids are kids.

yeah. And if it breaks, it doesn't look too hard to fix.

 

[Belushi]

I don't see the fuss tbh, children climb on stuff all the time. Art is overrated if children can't engage with it when it's put at their level and has no barriers. People are being precious.

The parents aren't really doing themselves any favours with the 'anti establishment' stuff, but kids are kids.

Its not a kid climbing on the sculpture that's annoying, its the parents response.

 

[MAD-T-REX]

What kind of arse takes photos of children playing around and puts them on the internet?

Take photo, tweet it with outraged comment, get lots of retweets. You are now a success and the envy of your friends, congratulations.

Its not a kid climbing on the sculpture that's annoying, its the parents response.

The parents sound a bit like knobs, but the person who posted the photo (in the Huff article) said "Horrible kids, horrible parents." Having fun and being irresponsible is part of being a child; the person who brought this important issue to the attention of the world needs to mind their own fucking business.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Its not a kid climbing on the sculpture that's annoying, its the parents response.

For me, what is annoying is the idea that if your kids play around in a public space, they might end up on the internet because some wanker wants to judge them.

 

[chilango]

Who knows where the time goes.This was them just 6 short years ago.

Looks like six long, hard years in his case.

 

[Awesome Wells]

That is the strangest photo i've seen in...a few minutes.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

the person who brought this important issue to the attention of the world needs to mind their own fucking business.

Yep.

 

[not-bono-ever]

if some unwashed pr0les had let their brats climb all over it, so you think the outrage would have been any different ?

 

[eatmorecheese]

Fuck me.

I once had a young autistic man I was supporting climb into a Babylonian water trough at the British Museum once. Security helped him climb off, no harm done, taken no further.

I really wish I'd contacted the press and championed my client's "anti-establishment" standpoint whilst being "seduced" by the Mesopotamian stonework.

What a pair of utter pricks.

 

[_angel_]

Fuck me.

I once had a young autistic man I was supporting climb into a Babylonian water trough at the British Museum once. Security helped him climb off, no harm done, taken no further.

I really wish I'd contacted the press and championed my client's "anti-establishment" standpoint whilst being "seduced" by the Mesopotamian stonework.

What a pair of utter pricks.

My son is autistic and he got naked in York minster chapter house aged about 9. Thank god no one was there to see it or take photos!!

We took his non autistic 4 yr old bro to an art gallery and we had a hard time stopping him doing what these kids were (ie climb over everything).

 

[ViolentPanda]

What a charming family. I can well imagine that if their 'anti-establishment' child was injured through its brattish behaviour the parent's would be suing the Tate.

Well one has to fund the retirement villa in Tuscany with something, doesn't one?

 

[ViolentPanda]

I don't see the fuss tbh, children climb on stuff all the time. Art is overrated if children can't engage with it when it's put at their level and has no barriers. People are being precious.

The parents aren't really doing themselves any favours with the 'anti establishment' stuff, but kids are kids.

When Henry Moore was told that some of his public sculpture was clambered over by children, he was reputed to have laughed at the appalled art critic who told him, and said "well, good for them, then!".

 

[stuff_it]

They called their child what!?

*rings social services*

 

[Dr_Herbz]

It looked like a cheap set of childrens' bunk beds from Ikea... Correction, overpriced bunkbeds... no harm done.

 

[xenon]

It ticks all the boxes doesn't it. I mean, if they'd just said, yeah she was being a bit naughty and curious, fine. But it screams we are showoff self important Guardianista wankers.

A guard once told me off for touching a stone sculpture in Tate Modern. TBF he wasn't an arse about it. I was of course making a defiant political point, sadly too subtle to be interpreted at the time and not just curious if it was stone or some other material.

 

[fogbat]

Its not a kid climbing on the sculpture that's annoying, its the parents response.

For me, it's both.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Its not a kid climbing on the sculpture that's annoying, its the parents response.

It's all a bit Viz's "The Modern Parents", isn't it?

The bloke even looks a bit Malcolm (3rd from the left), doesn't he?

 

[eatmorecheese]

It's all a bit Viz's "The Modern Parents", isn't it?

The bloke even looks a bit Malcolm (3rd from the left), doesn't he?

Exactly

The older boy looks a little Tarquin-esque...