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HYPERASHEL
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 Posted: 02/28/06 - 19:03 Post subject: $1.5M suspension from school
http://www.wsbtv.com/education/7540691/detail.html 
DETROIT -- The Detroit Institute of Arts is stuck with having to repair a painting worth $1.5 million.
It has to remove a stain left by a wad of gum stuck on the painting by a 12-year-old visitor.
It happened Friday. Museum officials said the boy was with a group from Holly Academy in Oakland County, Mich., when he took the gum out of his mouth and stuck it on Helen Frankenthaler's 1963 abstract painting "The Bay."
The gum didn't stick to the fiber of the canvas, but left a stain the size of a quarter. Museum experts are researching the chemicals in the gum to decide how to clean the painting.
Holly Academy director Julie Kildee said the boy had been suspended from the charter school and said his parents also have disciplined him.
"Even though we give very strict guidelines on proper behavior and we hold students to high standards, 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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j1miller
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Posted: 02/28/06 - 19:07 Post subject:
OH GOD!!! How embarassing to be his parents.
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blue
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Posted: 02/28/06 - 19:24 Post subject:
art is not worth $1.5 million.
next question.
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purple hayes
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Posted: 02/28/06 - 19:30 Post subject:
Why didn't the Detroit Institute of Arts have insurance on a painting worth $1.5 million?
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airehead
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Posted: 02/28/06 - 19:45 Post subject:
Public caning?
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andydp
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Posted: 02/28/06 - 20:34 Post subject:
| blue wrote: | art is not worth $1.5 million.
next question. |
Yes, materialism, greed and corruption in the world are all there is to life - correct ?
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purple hayes
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Posted: 02/28/06 - 20:35 Post subject:
| andydp wrote: | | blue wrote: | art is not worth $1.5 million.
next question. |
Yes, materialism, greed and corruption in the world are all there is to life - correct ? |
You left out Romanian sexual deviants.
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Posted: 02/28/06 - 20:36 Post subject:
| purple hayes wrote: | | andydp wrote: | | blue wrote: | art is not worth $1.5 million.
next question. |
Yes, materialism, greed and corruption in the world are all there is to life - correct ? |
You left out Romanian sexual deviants. |
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andydp
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Posted: 02/28/06 - 20:40 Post subject:
| purple hayes wrote: | | andydp wrote: | | blue wrote: | art is not worth $1.5 million.
next question. |
Yes, materialism, greed and corruption in the world are all there is to life - correct ? |
You left out Romanian sexual deviants. |
I think that's part of the "creative arts" world...
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robp
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Posted: 02/28/06 - 21:58 Post subject:
Leave it to a 12 yr old to put a bunch of pompous art lovers in their place.... You'd think a painting valued that highly would be out of actual physical reach of the general public.
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prohemp
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Posted: 02/28/06 - 22:52 Post subject:
| purple hayes wrote: | | Why didn't the Detroit Institute of Arts have insurance on a painting worth $1.5 million? |
PH has bingo!!!
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MechEngDropout
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Posted: 02/28/06 - 23:22 Post subject:
| robp wrote: | | Leave it to a 12 yr old to put a bunch of pompous art lovers in their place.... You'd think a painting valued that highly would be out of actual physical reach of the general public. |
Art is by far the easiest high priced item to destroy, steal, ransom, deface, etc, etc.
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Posted: 03/01/06 - 01:29 Post subject:
| MechEngDropout wrote: | | robp wrote: | | Leave it to a 12 yr old to put a bunch of pompous art lovers in their place.... You'd think a painting valued that highly would be out of actual physical reach of the general public. |
Art is by far the easiest high priced item to destroy, steal, ransom, deface, etc, etc. |
all it takes it one well placed loogie...
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airehead
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Posted: 03/01/06 - 13:14 Post subject:
| robp wrote: | | Leave it to a 12 yr old to put a bunch of pompous art lovers in their place.... You'd think a painting valued that highly would be out of actual physical reach of the general public. |
Yeah, but Rob is right.
Remember those two priceless vases that that guy in London broke because he tripped on a shoestring and fell down some stairs???
The only reason it hadn't happened before now is because I hadn't been to that museum. Stairs+me+breakables=bad shizz
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