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Title: rubbish or art???
Post by: bodiam on November 06, 2011, 07:23:21 AM: A German museum is counting the cost after a cleaning woman mistook a valuable sculpture for an unsightly mess - and damaged it beyond repair.

The Martin Kippenberger installation entitled When It Starts Dripping From the Ceiling was on display at the Ostwall Museum in Dortmund.

The late modern master had created a tower of wooden slats under which a rubber trough was placed with a thin beige layer of paint representing dried rain water.

Taking it for a stain, the cleaner scrubbed the surface until it gleamed.

"It is now impossible to return it to its original state," a city spokesman said.

She said the work, valued by insurers at 800,000 euros (£690,000), had been loaned to the museum by a private collector.

Cleaning crews had orders to keep 20cm (8ins) away from artworks but it was unclear if the woman had been informed of this by the contractor that employed her.

It is not the first time works of art have suffered at the hands of over-zealous cleaners.

In 1986, a 'grease stain' by Joseph Beuys valued at around £346,000 was mopped away at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dusseldorf, western Germany.
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Title: Re: rubbish or art???
Post by: apc2010 on November 06, 2011, 07:30:56 AM: point:
Title: Re: rubbish or art???
Post by: Just One More on November 06, 2011, 07:46:56 AM: noooo:

I wonder how much a pair of boxers with a skid mark would be worth? I could be sat on a fortune ;D
Title: Re: rubbish or art???
Post by: Snoopy on November 06, 2011, 08:26:12 AM: Quote from: Just One More on November 06, 2011, 07:46:56 AM
noooo:

I wonder how much a pair of boxers with a skid mark would be worth? I could be sat on a fortune ;D

A very large fortune ~ or so I hear. whistle:
Title: Re: rubbish or art???
Post by: Miss Demeanour on November 06, 2011, 08:28:45 AM: Quote from: Just One More on November 06, 2011, 07:46:56 AM
noooo:

I wonder how much a pair of boxers with a skid mark would be worth? I could be sat on a fortune ;D

Is that Pop's Art ? rubschin:
Title: Re: rubbish or art???
Post by: Just One More on November 06, 2011, 08:49:29 AM: Wot, like Andy ~~War~~Arshol use to do like rubschin:
Title: Re: rubbish or art???
Post by: Darwins Selection on November 06, 2011, 10:46:18 AM: Quote from: Just One More on November 06, 2011, 07:46:56 AM
noooo:

I wonder how much a pair of boxers with a skid mark would be worth? I could be sat on a fortune ;D

"Memories of repasts passed" by Jom Van Rue
Title: Re: rubbish or art???
Post by: Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons) on November 06, 2011, 06:55:36 PM: Quote from: Miss Demeanor on November 06, 2011, 08:28:45 AM
Quote from: Just One More on November 06, 2011, 07:46:56 AM
noooo:

I wonder how much a pair of boxers with a skid mark would be worth? I could be sat on a fortune ;D

Is that Pop's Art ? rubschin:

No it's poop's art. noooo:
Title: Re: rubbish or art???
Post by: bodiam on November 07, 2011, 07:34:40 AM: a pair of boxers with a skid mark....Greyhounds I could understand but boxers cant run that fast noooo:
Title: Re: rubbish or art???
Post by: Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons) on November 07, 2011, 08:44:43 AM: drumroll: