Posted on 07/14/2017 5:14:49 PM PDT by BenLurkin
TThe quest for the perfect selfie at a pop-up gallery in Los Angeles known for its Instagram-friendly art took a disastrous turn recently, and it came with a steep price.
The calamitous scene unfolded when an unidentified woman crouched for a selfie in front of a row of crowns displayed individually on pedestals and fell backward, triggering an unstoppable domino effect in a room described by the gallery as “a serene space.”
A video, posted on YouTube Thursday, captured the mishap at the 14th Factory as each pedestal fell onto the next.
Simon Birch, a British-born, Hong Kong-based artist who conceived the art installation, told the New York Times that the selfie fail occurred two weeks ago and caused about $200,000 in damage.
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I think she did it on purpose.
They set ‘em up. She knocks ‘em down.
“Performance Art” at its finest!
More like $20
Thank goodness it wasn’t Moochelle Obama or Loretta Lynch.
All four rows would have fallen over, not just one.
They should have at least nailed those things down. Who would know? It looks like she tried to lean on it.
Note to Artist, next time use Gorilla Glue.
200k? baloney! who would make a display with 200k worth of display items and stands and have it be so flimsy?
probably not even worth 1/2 that.
clearly if the public is to be able to walk around them and such little space between them there is likelihood of them being bumped into or in this case fallen into by accident or on purpose.
Looks like it in the video.
No, No, NO! THIS is a tragedy, not some dumb-@ss, ‘art’ getting smashed!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stDWNam7RtE
I think it’s all part of the “art” performance.... or if it wasn’t, it sure is now!
Power upset by spontaneity???
Power to the people!!
Girrrllllll power!!
Overturning the rulers’ applecarts...... etc.
WOW, that is insanely hilarious!
$25 at an upscale yardsale.
Agree. Imagine if a toddler or fragile elderly person with balance problems hit the exhibit it could have injured either one.
On a side note, I remain unimpressed with modern art.
Guarantee that it was literally a set up. To get attention for the artist/gallery.
200k? baloney! who would make a display with 200k worth of display items and stands and have it be so flimsy?
probably not even worth 1/2 that.
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I would say not more than twenty cents. Most art is a fraud these days.
The resultant performance art is worth much more.
Unimpressed as well. Who’s to say how much modern ‘art’ is worth outside the materials used to make it? Van Gogh died poor with his paintings worth little more than the canvas and paint at the time.
Fake “Calamity”
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