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A (now ex-) guard at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh has been charged with slashing a painting on loan to the museum from our very own Art Institute. Art Institute restorers are trying to see if the painting is salvageable, but police say it's damaged beyond repair. Neither museum will comment on how much the painting is worth, but reports say Vija Celmins's "Night Sky #2" is worth around $1.2 million. Well, it was.
Timur Serebrykov's lawyer says his client "snapped," and according to the AP, "[c]ourt documents indicate Serebrykov used a key or other implement to damage the painting because he disliked it." Serebrykov's also says that the vandalism "was nothing personal."
Celmins says, "These kinds of things happen all over the world in various museums. People do these things. I have no idea why."
"Night Sky #2" is based off satellite imagery and taps into Celmins's penchant for depicting expanse. According to the Art Institute, "With jewellike imagery and a suggestion of vastness, Night Sky #2 is at once romantic and unsettling. Without the anchor of a horizon or a humanly scaled reference point, viewers may find it difficult to determine their relationship to the image. As a result, they may feel simultaneously engaged and distanced in the presence of this mesmerizing view." [Trib, Post-Gazette, Trib, AP]
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Agghhhh, why in the world do people do these things? *sigh*
Sucks.
I could probably create something like that for about $100. Modern art, come up with a BS description and sell for an absurd amount of money.
It reminds me of Barnett Newman's "Voice of Fire" which the National Gallery of Canada paid C$1.76 million for. The painting was a red stripe surrounded by blue stripes. Being in Canada at the time, I remember seeing on the news some enterprising (and stereotypical) guy from the Maritimes recreate the thing for about $50 with supplies from his local hardware store. As they say, a fool and their money are soon parted.
He should have told them the slashing was his performance piece.
I could probably create something like that for about $100. Modern art, come up with a BS description and sell for an absurd amount of money.
Then why in the hell aren't you? Get off your butt and make some easy money. If you have so much confidence in your abilities, I don't understand what is holding you back.
There's creation, and there's re-creation.
I'm pretty sure I could redo most of the Beatles catalog, if I tried. That doesn't make me John Lennon.
Being an innovator is a lot harder than it looks. Being an imitator is pretty easy.
Why couldn't this guy have been guarding a Thomas Kinkade gallery when he got an attack of the stabbies? People probably have given him a damn medal for it.
UTV - HA!! Love it.
so will this slashing coincide with unforseen tears in space-time? did this asshat guard unwittingly create hundreds of wormholes throughout the universe?
sigh.. one can dream.
UTV: Imagine the wrath all of the Midwestern housewives who adore ol' TK. They'd tear him to shreads!
I think the slashed painting should be worth more.
Thanks Shannon! Now I can't focus!
YOU need to STOP listening to "Coast to Coast AM", on WLS!
Of course I'm too intellectual and high brow to listen to such garbage! For Real!
This means I have no idea if Art Bell was a much much better host than George Noory! And of course I don't believe in the three dimensional spacetime continuum or the fourth dimension and beyound.
I also don't belive in things that go bump in the night, like Shadow Creatures!
muahaha.. i made spook's brain bleed! :D
Hummmm I'm sure Art Bell talked about the movie Scanners (my Mom wouldn't let me see it cause I was "too young) where you could telepathically blow up some ones brain.
Of course not that I know any thing about Art Bell or "Coast to Coast AM",
1.2 million huh? So NASA should be able to finance itself via the Hubble itself.
One point two million (facepalm).
Spook, I am actually friends with Ian Punnet, not that you know who he is, you know, because you don't listen to Coast to Coast...
One loophole with destroying a Thomas Kinkade (sic?) I'm pretty sure you won't find his paintings in a reputable museum. Perhaps a slashing of a TK can occur at this man's next job, as a security guard at the mall?
Well, by "Thomas Kinkade Gallery," I meant "Place next to the Orange Julius stand," so that's what I was thinking as well. I am given pause, however, by the mentioned wrath of Midwestern housewives. I wouldn't want to take a printed ceramic mug to the head.