You can't take kids anywhere these days!

OMG!!! I can not believe that!! That is horrible!! What kid at THAT age is going to appreciate an art museum?
 
For some perspective on the matter, here is a picture of the painting:





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Can you really blame the kid?
 
Honestly, I'm suprised anyone noticed.

Still, with a painting valued at 1.5 million, wouldn't you expect the museum to hang it out of reach?

-Bob
 
TheKnifeCollector said:
OMG!!! I can not believe that!! That is horrible!! What kid at THAT age is going to appreciate an art museum?
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My thoughts exactly! :eek:

The parents should have STARTED taking the kid to an art museum when he was 7 or 8 years old. More importantly, they should have taught him that you don't stick your used gum on a $1.5-million painting -- or -- a $20 patio chair.
 
orthogonal1 said:
Gum is a social crime. Nasty habit. Ban it.
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Are you from Singapore? Your statement sums up the governments attitude there.



My question about this incident: How did the teacher let this kid get away with chewing gum? When I was in grade school the teachers seemed to have some sort of sixth sense when it came to students chewing gum.
 
kozak6 said:
For some perspective on the matter, here is a picture of the painting:
Can you really blame the kid?
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You so dislike this painting you see no problem in someone defacing it so others can't enjoy it? What is it about this painting that angers you so?
 
While I think the kid should be punished, and I know it is wrong.
I still think it is kind of funny. (Did anyone see Bean?)
 
Ilovetoolsteel said:
You so dislike this painting you see no problem in someone defacing it so others can't enjoy it? What is it about this painting that angers you so?
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Whatever it is- calling it art is being very generous. I think that anyone who would pay 1.5 million dollars for that deserves to own it.(a fool and his money...)
Ed. for spelling.
 
Hell, I have a lot of Paintings at my house that are worth $1.5 Million according to my 4 year old finger painting Wonder. lol
Who puts a value on these things? I want to show them a few paintings. I would probably give them a good deal. Only charge them $100K for 3.
 
Blahahaha it looks like the painting may now be worth around 2 million as the gum seems to be in improvement for this particular piece of "art." The "artist" is a friggin marketing genius though if he could convince someone to shell out that sort of money for a few paint blobs.
 
Everybody's an art critic...

Here at the university, we have had a number of art-related "incidents". One lad had produced a number of welded-steel hemispheres about 2' wide and 1' tall. These were left on the lawn in front of the art school where they were slowly rusting into oblivion. An intoxicated person got off the bus at the nearby stop, walked by the "sculptures", (according to a witness) and suddenly jumped on top of one, flattening it. Apparently satisfied, he continued on his journey.

In another case, I contacted a student who maintained that his sculpture had been vandalized. We went to the scene, which also happened to be a storage area for the sculpture department, piled with wood, metal, junk, and other materials. The student pointed at a pile of junk. "There!" he said. "Where?" I asked. "There, there...See..." he said, pointing at a pile of welded-up pieces of junk. "Uh...."
Seems another student had mistaken the lad's sculpture for a....Pile of junk, and merely appropriated some of it for his own pile. They worked it out.

As to the painting in question, I offer my opinion as a sometimes artist:

Absolutely dreadful.
 
Reminds me of the TV documentary I once saw about a man who got a chimp to daub some paint on a canvas and hawked the resultant "artwork" around the art dealers. He got £20,000 for it!

The kid should have said he was interacting with the installation in a challenging, creative and artistic manner, creating an interesting tension between the old work and the new. Like architects do when they attach concrete cubes onto historic buildings. I know which I consider to be the greater vandals.

Andy.
 
Walking Man said:
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You wouldn't let kids around anything as expensive anywhere else, so why tempt them in an art museaum?
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I most certainly would allow my 12 year old to be around expensive or even priceless art, and we are around it quite often. That is because my wife and I raised her to have respect for other people's property and to be accountable for her own actions. She does not handle or take things that don't belong to her. She would not have done something like this even at 4 years old much less at 12. She was raised to know better.

Anyone who thinks this is an issue of the relative value of art pieces should be manditorily sterilized immediately! :D
 
A few years ago, we went to see the big Impressionist exhibit at the St. Louis Art Museum. This was a travelling exhibit worth many millions, with many important works from all the major Impressionists, as well as pre- and post- Impressionist works.

I noticed that the numerous guards at the event acted very unobtrusively and very effectively. I watched a pair flanking one of the Monets. As patrons would move closer to the painting, the guards would move closer to the patron.

Presumably any attempt to reach out and touch would have been "discouraged".
 
Dumb ass kid from Detroit...go figure at 12 years old the juvenile deliquint should have known better..but of course since the onset of charter schools in MI. Most of these schools now get the criminals that just have not done jail time yet..they have or are in the process of being kicked out of the Public School system so the parents think wow its still free school..lets send little Charlie Manson there....Kill the kid, Kill his parents. Kill the stupid charter school that he attends..

Charter schools...what a crock of shit..

aside from that I have no real opinion on the matter..
 
Being from Michigan (Ann Arbor area) I just laughed at this story.

The painting does bring up a question, what makes it worth so much? It looks like something I can do, and I can barely write my own name legibly.

Jay Leno said something about it a few nights ago: "A 12 year old boy in Detroit placed his chewing gum on a 1.5 million dollar painting while attending an art display. WOW! They have art in Detroit?"

I laughed at that too... Detroit is a shithole.
 
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