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Boy sticks gum on valuable painting
Topic Started: Mar 3 2006, 02:33 PM (129 Views)
Johnny Fist
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Boy sticks gum on valuable painting

Thu Mar 2, 8:39 AM ET

DETROIT (Reuters) - Painter Helen Frankenthaler's landmark abstract work "The Bay" just got a little more abstract -- to the dismay of Detroit museum officials.
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A 12-year-old boy visiting the Detroit Institute of Arts with his school group on Friday stuck a wad of chewing gum on the painting, which is worth an estimated $1.5 million, the Detroit Free Press said.

The barely chewed Wrigley's Extra Polar Ice gum left a residue stain about the size of a quarter in the lower left-hand corner of the painting, the newspaper said.

The boy was suspended from Holly Academy, a Detroit-area charter school he attends, the newspaper reported.

Neither museum nor school officials could be immediately reached for comment.

The 1963 painting, which remains on display, is considered one of the most important modern works in the Detroit museum's collection, the newspaper said.

Museum curators expect to be able to remove the gum residue with a solvent once they have researched the chemicals contained in the gum, assistant contemporary art curator Becky Hart said.

"In the scheme of things, this is upsetting, and it will make us review our policies. But we're confident that the painting will be OK," Hart told the Free Press.


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I used to get paddled for leaving paper on the floor.
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mireland
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ha ha...fucking brat... :sht:
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Prushka
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HeLLMasteRHeLL
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I would have pissed on it and gotten the same punishment.
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Prushka
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Wonder if that'd make the colors swirl
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No wonder the kid stuck the gum to the painting.

ITS FUCKING SHITHOUSE!!!
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Mar 3 2006, 03:26 AM
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No wonder the kid stuck the gum to the painting.

ITS FUCKING SHITHOUSE!!!

Wtf is that supposed to be??? Damn. Not only would I piss on it, I woulda taken a crap on it too.
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I'd have temporarily become a monkey and forced my poo in all the fine cracks in the 'painting' so it would be impossible to clean well enough to get rid of the smell.

How some crap like that can be worth 1.5m is fucking crazy!

Now, can anyone NOT understand why the rest of the world wishes art critics and collectors should all be forced into vats of molten hot lead!!!
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