How To Ruin A 1.5 Million Dollar Piece Of Art!

yeah i saw that, but i'm wondering... why was that thing so close to where people could trip over it? why did he have that cup? they should be happy he doesn't sue the place for that much putting that thing in an area where people walk in.


---Mike Savad
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oopsy daisy... pun intended !

Insurance will cover it.

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Is this for real or a candid camera gag? That fall looks rather fake. His body wasn't even in a position someone would be in to view art.

That is real. There are other videos with local news coverage. I am sure the Insurance will balk and make excuses as to why you didn't have a better partition etc.

i do wonder what made the hole. they showed the image that they said was 71" high, but it wasn't. and the cup is what hit it. meaning the painting was either flat on the floor or leaning against a wall some place

http://mashable.com/2015/08/25/boy-museum-painting/

i don't see the damage there. and the impact wasn't that great. and the image was in a strange place. not to mention that's a really strange place to put a security camera. it doesn't show the art at all. just a piece of an area.


---Mike Savad
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I wonder why the professional museum people were not taking good care of it? Was there any museum security system ?

i wonder why there isn't more than one angle of it. its a museum, there should be cross view. and of course a million cell phones


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

Saw this on the news this morning. I could not tell how the hole was made. It sort of looked like the painting was lying down rather than up on a wall.

Any insurance company insuring such a large amount would have someone review the security setup.

I like the part of about the organizers not going after the kids family. I still go with my original thought - publicity stunt or candid camera set up to drum up excitement for the show.

Maybe that's far fetched but then again...

Look at it frame by frame - the kid waits until no one is watching and then the elaborate hand out stretched.

here's another version showing the damage. still wondering why an image that expensive and that large, is so close you could sneeze on it.

makes me think that the video was set up, to show a boy tripping on nothing, but the hole was already there.


---Mike Savad
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It was on NBC news tonight - http://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news-netcast/video/nightly-news-full-broadcast-august-24-512361027712

couldn't find it on the site. i have my doubts this is really how it happened. it just seems oddly set up. a strange place for a camera for such an expensive painting. and odd placement for it, and the kid barely tripped over anything. pretty sure evidence will come out that there was a hole moments before or a day before. someone must have videos of that area with a phone.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

no proper museum allows food and drink in the galleries. All exhibits have guards in the rooms. I find it baffling that a work that valuable isn't properly secured and protected, that people are walking around with beverages.

Here is what I notice in that two videos posted.... The boy is casually standing there with drink in hand...starts walking and scratching his arm, could be nervousness, and looking to his left like he is looking for someone or just checking the room out. trip on nothing and then stands up and doesn't show any surprise... I am guess set up or intentional......

i'm guessing the kid was paid to do it. its set up like a cartoon script. a high priced painting, too close to everyone. and he some how stumbles and ruins it? betting they moved it, punched a hole in it. and the rest is a mock up. and they will be caught because someone will have footage from another angle from a phone, of him either falling, or the hole being there already. that's the footage i want to see.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

I am agreeing with you on this one Mike..... it totally looks fishy

The NBC news report didn't say much other then its the latest in mishaps between visitors and art. But they did show the hole and repair job.

Still more fun to go with conspiracy theory.

"the exhibition curator said that the painting was insured and the child won't be expected to pay for restoration costs, but that he's definitely grounded for at least the rest of the summer."

Whatever is said, no one utter the word 'scam", or everyone will be accused of having a lynch mob mentality.

Wonder what its worth now?

Back in 2010 a woman taking an adult education class at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art accidentally fell into The Actor, a 105-year-old painting by Pablo Picasso, causing a 6-in. tear in the canvas. The 4-ft.-by-6-ft. work of art is estimated to be worth $130 million.

Then there was the time Steve Wynn elbowed a hole in his own Picasso - Le Reve.

Wow!!! Very sad. I do believe this to be a museum tour. I also don't think that this art work was properly secured. The issue of the drink is "why" is he allowed to walk around with it. In most retail store you can't cary food or drinks. Tisk tisk tisk to the museum. This was bad security and practices. Even though they can fix it, it will never be the same.

It is normal that the paintings are so close to the people in museums. In the Uffizi Gallery if you stretch your arm and you lean a little you can touch the Botticelli's Venus without problems, and without anyone that can prevent it.

Usually only a few masterpieces have glass in front of them.