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Saturday, September 5, 2015

Boy tripped in museum and punched hole through million-dollar painting

A 12-year-old Taiwanese boy tripped at a museum over the weekend and broke his fall with a 350-year-old painting, smashing a hole in the work of art valued at $1.5m.
Footage released by the organizers of the Face of Leonardo: Images of a Genius exhibition in Taipei shows the boy – in shorts, trainers, a blue Puma T-shirt and holding a drink – walk past the still life, catching his foot and stumbling over.
He then looked up at the Paolo Porpora oil on canvas painting of flowers, shown later to have a fist-sized gash at the bottom, and froze, looking around at other people in the room.

The organizers will not ask the boy’s family to pay for the restoration costs. It said the exhibition organizer, Sun Chi-hsuan, said the boy was very nervous but should not be blamed and the painting, part of a private collection, was insured.

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