Thursday, March 02, 2006



MEANWHILE, IN AMERICA...
DETROIT -- A 12-year-old visitor to the Detroit Institute of Arts stuck a wad of gum to a $1.5 million painting, leaving a stain the size of a quarter, officials say. The boy was part of a school group that visited the museum on Friday, officials say. They say he took a piece of Wrigley's Extra Polar Ice gum out of his mouth and stuck it on Helen Frankenthaler's "The Bay," an abstract painting from 1963. "Our expectation is that the painting is going to be fine," said Becky Hart, assistant curator of contemporary art. Holly Academy director Julie Kildee said the boy had been suspended from the charter school and says his parents also have disciplined him.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Mick I'm Going Skating at Queens are you up for it PAUL

Anonymous said...

is that the Paul sugerman who wsed to live in london .Alex Stowell

Mick said...

Alas the only ice I have truck with these days is safely floating in a vodka on the rocks.