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# What NOT to Do with Kids in a Museum
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/what-not-to-do-with-kids-in-a-museum/
- Published: 2014-01-26T18:01:46.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:17:28.000Z
- Description: Bushwick gallerist Stephanie Theodore is at the Tate Modern today and spotted this hilarious/sad/incredible/unbelievable (so many mixed emotions) scene of parents allowing their child to use a Donald Judd sculpture as a bunk bed.
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: Opinion, Donald Judd, Tate Modern, WTF, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:03 (2014, 2015, part 1)

![@TheodoreArt's pic of parents "critiquing" a Judd.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/01/judd-tate-640.jpg)

@TheodoreArt’s pic of parents “critiquing” a Judd.

Bushwick gallerist Stephanie Theodore is at the Tate Modern today and spotted this hilarious/sad/incredible/unbelievable (so many mixed emotions) scene of parents allowing their child to use a Donald Judd sculpture as a … er … a bunk bed.

In response to my question of whether she actually took this almost-hard-to-believe scene, [she responded](https://twitter.com/TheodoreArt/status/427493161431482368?ref=hyperallergic.com):

> yes. I told the woman the the kids were using a $10mm art work as a toy, she told me I knew nothing abt kids. Obv she doesn’t either

Theodore mentioned she told the staff about the couple’s actions and the [Tate was grateful](https://twitter.com/TheodoreArt/status/427497092056371200?ref=hyperallergic.com) for the tip. But let’s face it, this type of thing [isn’t as rare as one might think](https://twitter.com/railtonrailton/status/427498694972567553?ref=hyperallergic.com). The work in the photo appears to be Donald Judd’s “[Untitled](http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/judd-untitled-t03087?ref=hyperallergic.com)” (1980), but I haven’t been able to verify that.

No word if Ikea will be considering a new line of children’s bunk beds inspired by Judd. *Fingers crossed!*