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Boy Sticks Gum On $1.5 Million Painting At Museum
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| 2-28-2006
Posted on 02/28/2006 12:55:40 PM PST by Cagey
DETROIT -- The Detroit Institute of Arts is stuck with having to repair a painting worth $1.5 million.
It has to remove a stain left by a wad of gum stuck on the painting by a 12-year-old visitor.
It happened Friday. Museum officials said the boy was with a group from Holly Academy in Oakland County, Mich., when he took the gum out of his mouth and stuck it on Helen Frankenthaler's 1963 abstract painting "The Bay."
The gum didn't stick to the fiber of the canvas, but left a stain the size of a quarter. Museum experts are researching the chemicals in the gum to decide how to clean the painting.
Holly Academy director Julie Kildee said the boy had been suspended from the charter school and said his parents also have disciplined him.
"Even though we give very strict guidelines on proper behavior and we hold students to high standards, he is only 12 and I don't think he understood the ramifications of what he did before it happened, but he certainly understands the severity of it now," said Kildee.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: art; bubbalicious; craponcrap; hatewhenthathappens; kidstoday; nonart
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To: Junior_G
161
posted on
02/28/2006 6:03:49 PM PST
by
TFFKAMM
To: TFFKAMM
Tom Wolfe's The Painted Word is a great book. Light, amusing and right on.
To: TFFKAMM
Tom Wolfe's The Painted Word is a great book. Light, amusing and right on.
To: TFFKAMM
By jove, you're right. That looks like something I absolutely must read.
To: TXBubba
That is a good one. BTW, I'd have to kill the chewing gum boy if he were mine.
To: Cagey
This is comedy.
Art sucks, and this little kid showed us a thing or two about its lack of value.
166
posted on
02/28/2006 11:51:13 PM PST
by
rwfromkansas
(http://xanga.com/rwfromkansas)
To: Cagey
That stuff deserves much more than gum stuck on it. Some modern artist needs to crap all over it and call it his art.
167
posted on
02/28/2006 11:52:36 PM PST
by
rwfromkansas
(http://xanga.com/rwfromkansas)
To: linda_22003
You would have to be a moron to appreciate that.
168
posted on
02/28/2006 11:56:35 PM PST
by
rwfromkansas
(http://xanga.com/rwfromkansas)
To: BeHoldAPaleHorse
Nah, you couldn't do that. Arteests only drink girly, fruity drinks.
They couldn't deal with Mr. Daniels. :P
To: TexasCajun
Artists need to get off their lazy asses and get real jobs.
At least writers contribute something to society.
170
posted on
02/28/2006 11:58:22 PM PST
by
rwfromkansas
(http://xanga.com/rwfromkansas)
To: derllak
Just what I was wondering.
Didn't his folks teach him about, "Don't TOUCH!!" when he was younger? My 2-year-old knows what THAT means.
171
posted on
03/01/2006 12:13:16 AM PST
by
RandallFlagg
(Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
To: Junior_G
Abstract art isn't for everyone, but I like art that makes one strive for understanding and appreciation. And I happen to like Helen Frankenthaler's work. The woman was a genius. Seriously. She had a command of color and form, along with an amazing technical expertise demonstrated by her handling of materials, that few, living or dead, could or can match. To like her work doesn't make one a snob, and one doesn't need a degree in Art History or criticism to appreciate her accomplishment. The 'Emperor's New Clothes' syndrome exists, but seems to me to be the purview of post-modernists like Koons and Hirst--along with kitsch dealers like Kincaid: all of them cynical operators who prey on the trendy and the ill-informed. Unlike those frauds and hacks, Frankenthaler was the real thing, striving her whole professional life to achieve a synthesis of technique and idea, and deserves better than the treatment she's been receiving on this thread.
To: ChewedGum
I find it hard to believe no one has pinged YOU to this thread yet... ;-)
173
posted on
03/01/2006 12:21:31 AM PST
by
TheSarce
(The Silent Majority is finding its voice. It goes to ELEVEN!)
To: Cagey
Holly Academy director Julie Kildee said the boy had been suspended from the charter school and said his parents also have disciplined him. "Even though we give very strict guidelines on proper behavior and we hold students to high standards, he is only 12 and I don't think he understood the ramifications of what he did before it happened, but he certainly understands the severity of it now," said Kildee.
Oh my, I should hope so! After understanding terrorists, serial killers and baby rapers we're just fresh out of compassion for this sort of satanic miscreant behavior. =8^o
Bwaaa hahahahahahahaha! These freakin' liberals are a riot. I can just see Miz Kildee; dressing down the boy and his parents with a "Save Tookie" button on her lapel.
174
posted on
03/01/2006 12:23:01 AM PST
by
TigersEye
(Walk as if your footsteps shake the world.)
To: Rembrandt_fan
I was cracking up over the title before the thread was even loaded on my browser. The article had me in stitches. When I saw the painting I just about split a gut. My first thought was; the kid saw it and thought to himself "Oh, so that's where people put their old gum around here."
175
posted on
03/01/2006 12:30:15 AM PST
by
TigersEye
(Walk as if your footsteps shake the world.)
To: RandallFlagg
Exactly! Anyone under five can be forgiven, but a twelve year old? Gimmee a break!
176
posted on
03/01/2006 12:37:26 AM PST
by
derllak
To: rwfromkansas
Art sucks, and this little kid showed us a thing or two about its lack of value. While I deplore his actions, you're unquestionably right. Let the artsy-fartsy types explain why this paint splotch is worth a full $1.5 mil!
177
posted on
03/01/2006 12:46:47 AM PST
by
hunter112
(Total victory at home and in the Middle East!)
To: hunter112
You wrote, "Let the artsy-fartsy types explain why this paint splotch is worth a full $1.5 mil!"
Here's a short explanation for you: Frankenthaler's work is important and beautiful, and 'The Bay'--necessarily unique since she made no identical copies that I know of--is one of the most representative pieces of her mature style. A more market-oriented explanation would be simply 'supply and demand', since knowledgeable appraisers think $1.5 million is what a given private or public collector or concern would gladly pay to own that particular piece. In an economic sense, art is like any other commodity. Sometimes prices on newer works are either grossly inflated or underestimated, but pieces by proven masters such as Frankenthaler always increase in value over time.
To: hunter112
To: Rembrandt_fan
Well said. I tried in post 143, but I think it was ignored.
We'll just keep up the good fight.
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