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- Tourist sits on and shatters ‘Van Gogh’ chair adorned with thousands of Swarovski crystals
A foolish tourist in Italy sat on a chair adorned with thousands of Swarovski crystals for a photo op, crushing the precious work of art beneath his weight.
Instead of lowering himself and pretending to sit for the photo — like the woman accompanying him had done — security video shows a man deciding to go for it and sit down. The chair crumbled under his weight, as he lost his balance, trying to hold on to the wall with both hands so he didn’t fall.
Un gesto irresponsabile a Palazzo Maffei
Quello che avete appena visto non è uno scherzo, ma un episodio realmente…
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If anyone destroys a Van Gogh, the punishment should be an ear.
Looks like chubby Americans…
Alternate headline: “Italian Museum Fails To Protect Swarovski-Covered ‘Van Gogh’ Chair, Allowing Tourist To Mistake It For A Seat.”
@denver refugee – totally agree with you. Not the tourist’s fault.
@Denver Refugee — Why not blame immigrants instead? They’re a vulnerable, easily-demagogued scapegoat for nearly everything. Stub your toe? Mexicans! Get fired? They took your job! American tourists ruin an expensive art piece? It must be the Africans or the Arabs! Rinse and repeat. Bonus points if you refer to them as s-hole countries. Next-level is when you blame your perceived ideological and political opponents, like atheists, Democrats, and liberals, but you gotta up-the-ante by referring to them as scarier boogeymen, like Marxists, Maoists, and Leninists! That’ll fix your broken crystal chair. (Yes, I am mocking y’all.)
@ Michael. It was a Ncola biola not a Van Gogh.
Any museum that does not secure its work are idiots
I have seen bathrobes roped off at the Tate modern.
SIT ON IT, Fonzi
No, I seriously doubt that he mistook it for a seat if his wife ‘pretended to sit on it for a photo’ — why PRETEND to sit it if they thought it was a just another chair? Plus, they waited for security to leave before pulling this stunt.
Blaming the museum strikes me as merely passing the blame. How moronic not to treat the artifacts of a museum as the antiquities they are.
If Americans were involved, deport them.
The chair was placed on a pedestal and positioned by itself. How could anyone mistaken it as a chair for you to sit on, especially his wife “pretended” to sit before him? This is clearly a blatant disregard of museum property and art. This couple should be tracked down and prosecuted to the fullest extent.
It’s a fundamental rule of human nature – If you have something out in the relative open that looks like a chair, someone is going to attempt to sit on it.
Were there stanchions and ropes around that chair? A sign saying “Do Not Sit On This Chair” or an illustration of a person sitting in that chair with a circle-backslash overlay?
Paraphrasing Hanlon’s Razor, never ascribe to idiocy that which can adequately be explained by ambiguity.
@Denver Refugee — Too many razors. Someone’s probably gonna cut themselves by accident. Can we use wooden spoons instead. Safety first.