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 Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 1:58 pm Post subject: $1.5 million painting gets 12-year-old's gum |
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| Quote: | DETROIT, Michigan (AP) -- Apparently, one 12-year-old visitor to the Detroit Institute of Arts doesn't think much of abstract art.
The boy stuck a wad of gum to a $1.5 million painting called "The Bay" by Helen Frankenthaler, leaving a stain the size of a quarter, officials said.
The boy, who was not identified because of his age, was part of a school group that was visiting the museum last week when officials said he took a piece of gum out of his mouth and stuck it on the 1963 painting. (Watch why the boy put the goo on the canvas, see the stain -- 1:32)
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.
"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.
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That was really naughty of him. I hope he learnt his lesson about vandalism. Maybe the government should ban chewing gum like Singapore!  When the former president found out the MRT door of the train was jammed because of chewing gum, he did just that - banned it forever! Luckily I don't like in Singapore coz I LOVE bubble gum. |
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| Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 3:43 pm Post subject: |
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HEHEHEHE~ he is naughty , what?! a million? 
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I pity all the people in Singapore..Can't eat bubblegum!eheh...Singapore is SO tough!
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