[DemforBush]

The perp looks like she's either off her bean or an OWS type. Or maybe both.

I'm actually surprised she was able to get so close to the painting as to deface it. You'd think a painting worth that much would be guarded/behind glass/etc.

[DemforBush]

BTW, here's the perp and the painting:

The Perp

The painting

[exPBRrat]

HUH! 30 million of hard earned money or National Endowment for the Arts money? Anyway I’m with the poster that recommends these pricy works of art be protected by glass.

[kanawa]

"...pulled her pants down to slide her buttocks against it."

LOL

[Caipirabob]

I'm not justifying the destruction of it, but this is meaningless, tasteless "art" that only a commie or socialist would love - right in line with the stated goals of communism in the senate record.

Basically, it was already crap. Who could tell the difference if she wiped with it?

[Tax-chick]

Still died in 1980, and the city of Denver worked for years with his widow, Patricia, to secure the single-artist museum. She died in 2005, and her husband's collection was bequeathed to the city.

Four of Still's works were auctioned by Sotheby's last year for $114 million to endow the Denver museum, which opened with much fanfare in November.

This sounds like a complete swindle to me. It would be interesting to know who, in the Denver city government, is making money off this.

[Blogatron]

From The Communist Goals:

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”

It is worth $30M only because commie art pimps say it is worth $30M.

[Drawsing]

We are surrounded by abstraction in nature and some artists notice it, find it beautiful and try to do it justice in paint. For instance, have you ever noticed how sunlight filtered through tree leaves on a sunny afternoon makes these little perfect glimmering circles on the sidewalk? There was an artist a while back who did some very nice paintings based on this.

I do more realistic art, but awareness of the abstract structure of the landscape keeps my paintings from looking like a collage of pasted on objects.

On the other hand, art that is designed to shock or offend is simply bad art. And furthermore, no art needs government funding.