Nov 032011
… and art’s not art if it is easily mistaken for trash.
$1.1M German museum piece falls victim to cleaning lady
I bust my hump trying to properly craft rare and exotic display models of unusual craft, and photographically represent some truly awesome views. And some dork gets a million bucks for making something that apparently looks like a dried up water puddle.
Bah.
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You can fight ’em, or you can join ’em. 🙂
I give up. Is that some German version of The Onion?
Nope, this is REAL
here the news in german:
http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/gesellschaft/0,1518,795709,00.html
http://www.stern.de/panorama/dortmunder-museum-putzfrau-schrubbt-kunstwerk-weg-1746937.html#utm_source=sternde&utm_medium=zhp&utm_campaign=panorama&utm_content=snippet-links
That not the first time, this happen in Germany
1986 A cleaning woman destroy a artwork of Josef Beuys
“Fettecke” eng. “Fat corner” proverbial a corner covert with Fat.
the museum had to pay $552280 for damage to artist
in 1993 a group of cleaning woman’s destroy another artwork
wat consisted of a bathtub, cleaned it up fill it water and ice
to chill beverage for a Vernissage about THIS artwork…
After the scandal, the museum had to pay more than $1m for damage to the collector
but this is nullity agains cleaning woman who inadvertently kills
Some years ago a cleaning woman accidental kill 25 patent in Johannesburg, South Africa
she pull the plug from Life-support machine, to vacuum-clean the patent room…
So did the various cleaning women keep their jobs?
Easy fix–just place some sculpture by this artist next to what might be mistaken for trash, and hide a speaker in it.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Mueck