Yes, but is it art?
Apparently, a 12-year-old boy didn't think so.
The boy (who wouldn't stand a rat's chance in Singapore) stuck gum on a $1.5-million abstract painting on exhibit at the Detroit Institute of Arts. The gum left a stain on the "The Bay" by Helen Frankenthaler. Curators and restoration experts are still researching the chemical composition of the gum to decide which solvent to use.
The painting -- though it's purity has been stained (heh, just had to say that, sorry) -- is "going to be fine," museum authorities said.
The boy, meanwhile, is probably off to MOMA or the Louvre, after being suspended from school. He's got a promising career ahead of him. via Boing Boing.
The boy (who wouldn't stand a rat's chance in Singapore) stuck gum on a $1.5-million abstract painting on exhibit at the Detroit Institute of Arts. The gum left a stain on the "The Bay" by Helen Frankenthaler. Curators and restoration experts are still researching the chemical composition of the gum to decide which solvent to use.
The painting -- though it's purity has been stained (heh, just had to say that, sorry) -- is "going to be fine," museum authorities said.
The boy, meanwhile, is probably off to MOMA or the Louvre, after being suspended from school. He's got a promising career ahead of him. via Boing Boing.
I'm from Dearborn, Mi, just outside of Detroit where I attended Fordson Highschool (dropout/GED). During the 90's at some point, there was a field trip to the D.I.A. where a notorious incident took place involving a couple students fighting each other, and damaging some classical masterpiece, which resulted in the permanent ban of our school from the museum.
ReplyDeleteBoy, D. I. A. must be a magnet for juvenile deliquents, then. :P
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