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Ai Weiwei vase worth $1m broken in local artist protest
BBC ^
| 2/18/14
Posted on 02/18/2014 4:33:11 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
...A Florida artist is facing criminal charges after deliberately dropping a vase by dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei in an apparent protest.
Maximo Caminero, 51, was charged with criminal mischief after breaking the $1m (£600,000) vase on Sunday in Miami.
Police say Mr Caminero told them he broke the art work in protest at the Perez Art Museum Miami's failure to exhibit work by local artists.
Mr Ai said he did not support artists destroying other artists' work.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: art; ownership; property
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The local Miami media is AGHAST that someone would DESTROY private property....an attitude it DOES NOT display when the Occupy morons break windows of businesses or when Obama takes the liberty of religious people or taxpayers.
To: SoFloFreeper
Mr Ai said he did not support artists destroying other artists' work.
Nope, just him. I say we should drop him off a building and see if he breaks. (Not that I support dropping idiots off buildings)
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posted on
02/18/2014 4:41:00 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: SoFloFreeper
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posted on
02/18/2014 4:45:31 AM PST
by
JoeProBono
(SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
To: SoFloFreeper
How do we know this vase was worth $1 million? Who paid that amount for it?
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posted on
02/18/2014 4:49:02 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
(The future is not going to take us seriously.)
To: cripplecreek
Mr. Ai is the artist whose vase was broken, not the vase breaker.
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posted on
02/18/2014 4:53:13 AM PST
by
MortMan
(Is a delayed shower a "stay of exablution"?)
To: Tax-chick
Was Maximo upset that Mexican art was not displayed?
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posted on
02/18/2014 4:53:34 AM PST
by
ltc8k6
To: SoFloFreeper
“local artists”
In some places this would clearly mean homosexual “artists.”
To: cripplecreek
failure to exhibit work by local artists.
Hmmmm, maybe if he was a better artist....
Besides there are venues for “local artists” to display things, they don’t need to have access to every place that displays art.
More importantly though, what kind of idiots leave a $1m vase out where it can be broken?
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posted on
02/18/2014 4:56:41 AM PST
by
logic101.net
(How many more children must die on the altar of "gun free zones"?)
To: ltc8k6
I think Maximo was upset that HIS art wasn’t on display. Nonetheless, Mr. Ai is a vase-smasher himself, to make a point, so he set the example.
The article doesn’t say how the value was established, but I’m guessing it wasn’t the free-market sale price.
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posted on
02/18/2014 4:57:34 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
(The future is not going to take us seriously.)
To: Tax-chick
“Who paid that amount for it?”
Possibly insured for that amount. This may end up being an insurance scam.
To: SoFloFreeper
Worth $1 million? I'm thinking more like $24.99
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posted on
02/18/2014 4:59:03 AM PST
by
Fresh Wind
(The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
To: cripplecreek
Maximo was the criminal...Ai is the artist.
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posted on
02/18/2014 5:09:09 AM PST
by
Ann Archy
(Abortion......the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
To: SoFloFreeper
Ai Weiwei is a truly brave artist not a spoiled brat like this Maximo. That he would do this in protest speaks volumes about the fruits of a permissive, entitled society.
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posted on
02/18/2014 5:14:01 AM PST
by
demshateGod
(The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
To: Heart of Georgia
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posted on
02/18/2014 5:14:27 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
(The future is not going to take us seriously.)
To: SoFloFreeper
Local potters are a dime a gross. Although artists and local, if you start displaying their work, there is no end. The Museum will die
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posted on
02/18/2014 5:16:06 AM PST
by
bert
((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... History is a process, not an event)
To: cripplecreek
Mr Ai is the artist who made the vase..............Maximo Caminero is the one who broke it.................
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posted on
02/18/2014 6:22:40 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
To: SoFloFreeper
That was a priceless Wee-Wee vase!!
Nit eeney meour.
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posted on
02/18/2014 6:23:50 AM PST
by
DManA
To: Fresh Wind
Hey I saw those for $19.99!...............
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posted on
02/18/2014 6:24:38 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
To: Fresh Wind
$24.99 for the group, I hope.
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posted on
02/18/2014 6:25:56 AM PST
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
To: DManA
It was priceless. Now it’s worthless..........I suppose he could glue all the pieces back together and it would be worth $2 million because it’s now a ‘historical object’.....................A ‘win-win’ for Wei-Wei.................
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posted on
02/18/2014 6:26:42 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
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