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.
Didn't the teachers leading the field trip tell the kids, in no uncertain terms, "DO NOT TOUCH ANYTHING IN THE MUSEUM"? If not, they need their a$$es examined because they've already lost their heads! You do NOT go into any place that has valuable items without reminding kids every few minutes to keep their hands to themselves! Besides which, he shouldn't have been chewing gum in there anyway!
"...aaaaand we'll just place a happy little mound of choon gum riiiiiight here..."
I know the nuns I had in school didn't fool around. I wouldn't even THINK of doing anything wrong on a field trip with those nuns.WOOOOOOOO.You'd get the knuckle in the back of the head routine .
Gum would be an improvement.
Best laugh I've had today.
Maybe he was improving the work.
I miss Bob Ross.
now that's funny
that was funny...
Who'd pay over a million for that painting?
Mik: brilliant.
prof: Ping! Time for another art education class.
who's that cold french guy and why doesn't he wipe his nose???
I can guaran-damn-tee you the nuns were howling laughing, re-telling the story when they got back home that night! We never saw them do those things, but my Aunt Frances is a Sister of Mercy, and the stories she'd tell about life at the convent! LOL!!
She laughs now about one Friday when they'd had busy week, and no one felt like cooking. They just hauled out some Vienna Sausages, crackers and cheese. They were about halfway done, when one of them remembered that it was FRIDAY, and they weren't supposed to be eating meat. They laughed and then realized just why those Vienna Sausages tasted so much better than usual!
when he took the gum out of his mouth and stuck it on Helen Frankenthaler's 1963 abstract painting "The Bay."
Did you even READ the article???????????????
when he took the gum out of his mouth and stuck it on Helen Frankenthaler's 1963 abstract painting "The Bay."
Did you even READ the article???????????????
Oh, like it matters on that thing. No one would ever notice.
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