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How to get an F in art class: fall through a Picasso
Drunken airline passengers aren't the only people to do stupid things. An art student examining a Picasso painting somehow managed to fall into it and put a six-inch tear into the priceless work of art.The painting, called The Actor and dating to the winter of 1904-05, was on display at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The woman who did the damage was not named, but it's likely she won't be showing her face around the Met anytime soon. Museum officials were quick to reassure art lovers that the damage would be repaired in time for the Picasso in the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition, which opens April 27 and will feature 150 of the artist's works from the museum's collection.
There is no report on what grade she got in her class. No extra credit for guessing the correct answer.
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Reader Comments (Page 2 of 2)
waterlilys Jan 27th 2010 12:36AM
PICASSO CONFESSION IS ONLY A LITERARY VEHICLE
IN OTHER WORDS : A FAKE
In an INVENTED INERVIEW Picasso's 'confession' was to Italian writer Giovanni Papini for his journal L'Acerba; and later included in a book published for his 70th birthday.
The book shows that the Picasso 'interview' is one of many such spoofs.
2201East Jan 27th 2010 12:55AM
I used to own a framing shop and did work for the biggest galleries in the city. I learned one day that one of my framers had put a tool through the canvas on a particularly expensive piece and fixed it before it was shipped out. For all intents and purposes the piece had been ruined. In this case, I was unable to contact who purchased. It had been bought under circumstances that were peculiar.
I also remember a major gallery whose owner had an older lady, a friend's mother, who regularly came in to "touch up" pieces!
Olivia Jan 27th 2010 1:38AM
I know it wasn't a funny thing to happen but I did start to laugh out loud because it made me think of the Mr. Bean movie where he sneezed on the "Whistler's Mother" painting and then wiped it off with his hankie...along with her face..so he drew her a new one. Priceless!
theburning3rd Jan 27th 2010 2:07AM
A plus for "performance art" and thought provoking subject matter