Don't you just hate it when somebody breaks your expensive vase?
By adamg - 12/11/08 - 11:07 am
Greg Cook reports an ICA tour guide bumped into the pedestal used to display Joe Zane's glass sculpture "Tulip Head," sending the $7,000 work crashing to the floor and shattering it into a zillion pieces. With photos of the original work and the replacement vase the artist was able to make.
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Goddanit!
This is why we can't have nice things.
Hey look at it this way,
Hey look at it this way, doesnt this help his chances of winning the grand prize??
Actual transcript of the event:
Horrified ICA Official: That was a priceless Zane!
Tour Guide: (pause) Not anymore.
This? This is my greatest
This? This is my greatest nightmare. I love museums but I am incredibly clumsy.
mom always said...
dont play ball in the house!
where's the spirit of modern art?!
Simply cordon off the area with the shattered glass, give it a name, revise the exhibit tag, and voila, you've got yourself a Brand New Installation.
Plus you could even jack up the value!
Sheesh. No lack of vision here. Jasper Koons would be ashamed. Marcel Duchamp might be chagrined, but would say he was a cyst.