Well my laugh of the day came as I was driving home listening to the news. Apparently some 12 year old visitor to the Detroit Institute of the Arts stuck a wad of gum on an abstract painting worth $2 million. Appropriately he was suspended from school. Now when I got home I did some checking on the web and according to USA Today, the work was entitled "The Bay" by Helen Frankenthaler and was valued not at $2 million as I heard on the radio, but only $1.5 million.
I am probably betraying my uncouth, unsophisticated nature but to me, sticking a wad of gum on abstract art can only be an improvement. Had no one saw the kid do this, I bet no one would have noticed anything unusual about the painting and in fact, the gum probably would have elicited comments about how the gum was the "defining detail" of this marvelous work.
$1.5 million for an abstract art piece? People working for minimum wage doing something useful and vital for society? Give me a break; something's out of tune.
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