It is useful to remind the public that the needs of the film crews yield to the well-being of the art

On June 11, 2018, The New York Times published an article by James Barron (“Nights at the Museum: When the Met Doubled as a Movie Studio”) which noted the steps that were taken to protect the art while the Metropolitan Museum was being used to film some scenes from the movie “Ocean’s 8”. With this film and with Beyonce and Jay-Z’s recent video in which they and their dancers come ever so close to the “Winged Victory of Samothrace”, Jacques-Louis David’s “Coronation of Napoleon”, and other major monuments of art history in the Louvre (how one envies them a Louvre without hoards of other visitors), it is useful to remind the public that the needs of film crews yield to the well-being of the art.