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The Neues Museum in Nuremberg has filed a criminal complaint after the elderly woman wrote on the artwork with a ballpoint pen.
The 1965 piece by Arthur Koepcke, titled "Reading-work-piece," includes the phrase "Insert Words" and features a partially filled-in crossword puzzle. After it became known that she had added letters to the puzzle, the woman explained to the museum that she was simply following directions.
Museum spokesperson Eva Martin confirmed the story to the press on Thursday. "The artist had already filled in some of the boxes," Martin said, before adding that the elderly woman had taken the opportunity to fill in some of those he had left blank.
The spokesperson went on to say that it should be clear to all museum patrons that under no circumstances could people write on the artwork. "We can't put corresponding labels on every piece of artwork," Martin said.
No malicious intent
http://www.dw.com/en/nuremberg-museum-horrified-after-woman-fills-in-artwork-resembling-crossword-puzzle/a-19400502
MADem
(135,425 posts)it is impossible to know. And "insert words" begs for someone to ... well, insert words.
They were probably lucky they got an old lady with that pen, instead of a young kid with a mouth full of f bombs, or something.
No guard? No sign saying 'do not touch?' No little velvet rope, perhaps, or a glass enclosure to the piece?
I'm not going to blame the old lady--who knows, maybe she improved the thing...?
I say let her add her name below the original artist, and make it a collaborative piece!
riversedge
(71,919 posts)joshcryer
(62,315 posts)Nay
(12,051 posts)been tons of interactive pieces over the last 30 years. If the museum did not want it to be interactive, a simple rope barrier or a Plexiglas case would have been protective.
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tblue37
(65,936 posts)"Woman Who Ruined Fresco Of Jesus Now Wants To Be Paid"
Cecilia Giménez, the Spanish woman who really messed up when she tried to restore a 19th-century fresco of Jesus, now wants a piece of the action from the 2,000 or so euros ($2,600) her church has collected from tourists coming to see the ruined artwork.
Spain's El Correo reports, according to Gawker's translation, that the 80+-year-old Giménez has hired lawyers to make her case. A court battle is expected. Ars Technica says the church has also lawyered up.
As Eyder wrote last month, by the time Giménez was done with her attempt at restoration, the image was being likened to a werewolf. But news reports in recent weeks also showed that her work has some fans such as the online Beast-Jesus Restoration Society and that it is drawing tourists to the Santuario de Misericordia church in Borja.
So now, it appears, we're at the stage of the story where the inevitable legal actions begin.
SNIP
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2012/09/20/161466361/woman-who-ruined-fresco-of-jesus-now-wants-to-be-paid
Jeffersons Ghost
(15,235 posts)tblue37
(65,936 posts)direct us to?
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Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)This is like the first half at least:
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)Monk06
(7,675 posts)Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)struggle4progress
(119,238 posts)cut a colorful souvenir frog out of an old Picasso painting without some killjoy getting all uptight
Jeffersons Ghost
(15,235 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Why just leave them sitting there, then?
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Now I'm feeling a bit embarrassed.
Javaman
(62,848 posts)Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)closeupready
(29,503 posts)in a room full of priceless oil paintings, there was one painting in particular - it was just gorgeous, and you couldn't miss it because it was huge and placed on the wall to the left of the doorway. I forget the artist, but he was an impressionist master whose name we would all know, although this work is not considered too special (for whatever reason).
Well, whaddaya know, but I was on my way out, and I passed a woman who seemed to be inspecting the painting closely, and as I passed her, I saw that she was touching and rubbing the paint with her fingers, as if to get an actual physical feel as to the paint and its texture.
I was shocked and aghast! The very idea of touching a work of art intended to be enjoyed by others who appreciate beautiful works, families, children ... Just how fucking selfish.