On Sat, 04 Mar 2006 16:31:38 -0800, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
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http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11626023?GT1=7850

Boy uses $1.5 million painting for gum parker
Museum researching chemicals in wad to figure out how to clean canvas

Updated: 5:02 p.m. ET March 1, 2006

DETROIT - A 12-year-old visitor to the Detroit Institute of Arts stuck a
wad of gum to a $1.5 million painting, leaving a stain the size of a
quarter, officials say.

The boy was part of a school group from Holly, Mich., that visited the
museum on Friday, officials say. They say he took a piece of Wrigley's
Extra Polar Ice gum out of his mouth and stuck it on Helen
Frankenthaler's "The Bay," an abstract painting from 1963.

The museum acquired the work in 1965 and says it is worth about $1.5
million.

The gum stuck to the painting's lower left corner and did not adhere to
the fiber of the canvas, officials told the Detroit Free Press. But it
left a chemical residue about the size of a quarter, said Becky Hart,
assistant curator of contemporary art.

The museum's conservation department is researching the chemicals in the
gum to decide which solvent to use to clean it. The museum hopes to make
the repair in two weeks and will keep "The Bay" on display in the
meantime, she said.

"Our expectation is that the painting is going to be fine," Hart said.

Holly Academy director Julie Kildee said the boy had been suspended from
the charter school and says 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.

© 2006 The Associated Press

If one reflects upon this incident for a moment, most paintings like
this are so overvalued that it is farcical.
I think the lad has done a minor service to the art mafia industry's
reform.
They complain bitterly about a bit of foloured rag getting a minor
blemish, whilst supporting a delusional Emporer who sends their kids
by the thousands to be slaughtered by monsters of his own making.

The priorities truly beggar logical understanding.

On Sat, 04 Mar 2006 16:31:38 -0800, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
- Refer: <f9ck025csf8fq3gj2mcq4fvpuqhgog0cc2@4ax.com>

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11626023?GT1=7850

Boy uses $1.5 million painting for gum parker
Museum researching chemicals in wad to figure out how to clean canvas

Updated: 5:02 p.m. ET March 1, 2006

DETROIT - A 12-year-old visitor to the Detroit Institute of Arts stuck a
wad of gum to a $1.5 million painting, leaving a stain the size of a
quarter, officials say.

The boy was part of a school group from Holly, Mich., that visited the
museum on Friday, officials say. They say he took a piece of Wrigley’s
Extra Polar Ice gum out of his mouth and stuck it on Helen
Frankenthaler’s “The Bay,” an abstract painting from 1963.

The museum acquired the work in 1965 and says it is worth about $1.5
million.

The gum stuck to the painting’s lower left corner and did not adhere to
the fiber of the canvas, officials told the Detroit Free Press. But it
left a chemical residue about the size of a quarter, said Becky Hart,
assistant curator of contemporary art.

The museum’s conservation department is researching the chemicals in the
gum to decide which solvent to use to clean it. The museum hopes to make
the repair in two weeks and will keep “The Bay” on display in the
meantime, she said.

“Our expectation is that the painting is going to be fine,” Hart said.

Holly Academy director Julie Kildee said the boy had been suspended from
the charter school and says 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.

© 2006 The Associated Press

If one reflects upon this incident for a moment, most paintings like
this are so overvalued that it is farcical.
I think the lad has done a minor service to the art mafia industry's
reform.
They complain bitterly about a bit of foloured rag getting a minor
blemish, whilst supporting a delusional Emporer who sends their kids
by the thousands to be slaughtered by monsters of his own making.

The priorities truly beggar logical understanding.

On Sat, 04 Mar 2006 16:31:38 -0800, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
- Refer: <f9ck025csf8fq3gj2mcq4fvpuqhgog0cc2@4ax.com>

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11626023?GT1=7850

Boy uses $1.5 million painting for gum parker
Museum researching chemicals in wad to figure out how to clean canvas

Updated: 5:02 p.m. ET March 1, 2006

DETROIT - A 12-year-old visitor to the Detroit Institute of Arts stuck a
wad of gum to a $1.5 million painting, leaving a stain the size of a
quarter, officials say.

The boy was part of a school group from Holly, Mich., that visited the
museum on Friday, officials say. They say he took a piece of Wrigley’s
Extra Polar Ice gum out of his mouth and stuck it on Helen
Frankenthaler’s “The Bay,” an abstract painting from 1963.

The museum acquired the work in 1965 and says it is worth about $1.5
million.

The gum stuck to the painting’s lower left corner and did not adhere to
the fiber of the canvas, officials told the Detroit Free Press. But it
left a chemical residue about the size of a quarter, said Becky Hart,
assistant curator of contemporary art.

The museum’s conservation department is researching the chemicals in the
gum to decide which solvent to use to clean it. The museum hopes to make
the repair in two weeks and will keep “The Bay” on display in the
meantime, she said.

“Our expectation is that the painting is going to be fine,” Hart said.

Holly Academy director Julie Kildee said the boy had been suspended from
the charter school and says 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.

© 2006 The Associated Press

If one reflects upon this incident for a moment, most paintings like
this are so overvalued that it is farcical.
I think the lad has done a minor service to the art mafia industry's
reform.
They complain bitterly about a bit of foloured rag getting a minor
blemish, whilst supporting a delusional Emporer who sends their kids
by the thousands to be slaughtered by monsters of his own making.

The priorities truly beggar logical understanding.

On Sat, 04 Mar 2006 16:31:38 -0800, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:

DETROIT - A 12-year-old visitor to the Detroit Institute of Arts stuck a
wad of gum to a $1.5 million painting, leaving a stain the size of a
quarter, officials say.

Here's an idea... put something over the painting? Like gee, I don't
know, some kind of filmed (to avoid reflection) unbreakable glass,
like other museums use?