While the longer version of this tale of "Oh, I didn't realize that was the actual artwork" isn't quite as goofy as the shorter versions floating out there, the various other historic examples given are hilariously evocative of my last trip to the Tate Modern. #ddtb
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Overzealous cleaner ruins £690,000 artwork that she thought was dirty
She scoured off a layer of paint in a sculpture by late German artist Martin Kippenberger on loan to a museum in Dortmund
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Right. Because the museum has this policy where the untrained cleaning staff cleans the artwork, especially in a modern art museum. Oops!
“Oh, just one more thing…”
What’s with the screwy time stamps? My Columbo quote should be about 10 posts down. It makes no sense here.
Yeah, in this particular story, not quite sure what the cleaning person was thinking here.
It may be like the stars of Twilight…every time a new movie comes out, they're dating, but as soon as the hype is over, they're not dating again. Need some publicity? Claim that your modern art has been cleaned…
Oooh, I see a TV murder mystery plot …
Who dies?
The artist. It looks like suicide over the loss of his piece, but is actually murder by his wife, who will stand to collect the insurance claim on the damage done. It turns out she's the one who suggested the scam, I think.
And then the artist turns up living in Tahiti, painting buildings as a sort of anti-Gauguin/modernist.
Maybe living there with the cleaning woman…. 😉 Insurance scam par excellence!
No, no, doing some kind of local arts and crafts thing with stupidly accurate technical finesse.
Yes, yes! His ridiculously obsessive attention to some obscure technical detail is recognized, which brings about the unmasking of the plot.
Perfect. But I don't have time to write this, so it's up to the two of you.
Maybe next NaNoWriMo
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