A friend and I were visiting the Getty Museum in Malibu on its opening day for the public in 1974. We were in a room looking at various sculptures when there was a commotion on the other side of the room. I turned around and saw my friend kneeling on the floor holding a marble bust. My friend, being the goof off sort, made me think “what the Hell has he been up to now?”
As it turned out he was looking at the sculpture, which was mounted on a shelf, when a museum guard backed into it and knocked it off the shelf. My fiend caught it before it hit the floor. My friend received accolades from the crowd who witnessed his heroic act. To set the record straight he announced that he caught it because he didn’t want it to hit his foot.
Tourists acted stupidly, but so did the museum by leaving this cheesy display so accessible.
I hope the museum didn’t pay much for this hunk of kitsch.
I’ve heard complaints from people that obese people will tend to go sit on things like very expensive antiques and destroy them.
Seems like there’s this propensity for obese people to valuable objects.
He should sue the guy who built the chair.
She probably gave him an earful
They probably just decided to hop in the Van and Go.
IMO the art world is full of a bunch of junk some fairy has declared to be “art” and slapped a huge price tag on. The banana and duct tape is one example, this chair is another. No great loss. Besides the museum probably had it insured for a million dollars.
PowerAss!
Van Gogh painting of a chair, in 1888, is a well known piece. It looks nothing like this chair. If they didn’t title it “Van Gogh’s chair,” no one would have ever guessed. Still, who sits on a chair covered in little crystals? With a descriptive memo on the wall next to it, explaining what it is and who made it?
These are the kind of people that take selfies with f’n buffalo’s.
Idiot.
Yeah I’m guessing they were Americans.
And I have to believe they voted for QueMala.
You would think they would’ve roped it off so that people wouldn’t sit on it.