Posted on 02/18/2014 4:33:11 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
...A Florida artist is facing criminal charges after deliberately dropping a vase by dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei in an apparent protest.
Maximo Caminero, 51, was charged with criminal mischief after breaking the $1m (£600,000) vase on Sunday in Miami.
Police say Mr Caminero told them he broke the art work in protest at the Perez Art Museum Miami's failure to exhibit work by local artists.
Mr Ai said he did not support artists destroying other artists' work.
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I like the white one. Does that make me a Vasist?.......................
ha! i think it merely makes you vasial :)
i think he would have been upset if even Frido Kahlo or Diego Rivera's artwork were displayed... he wants his artwork on display... and other local artists' i suppose...
Ai Weiwei is one of those crap artists
Maximo should just say his breaking the thing was his work of art.
Applause all around.
How clever.
And on sale for 5 bucks. Good grief, I was picturing some elaborate, beautiful work of art - not so much.
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