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DETROIT - A 12-year-old visitor to the Detroit Institute of Arts stuck a wad of gum to a $1.5 million painting, leaving a stain the size of a quarter, officials say.

The boy was part of a school group from Holly that visited the museum on Friday, officials say. They say he took a piece of Wrigley's Extra Polar Ice gum out of his mouth and stuck it on Helen Frankenthaler's "The Bay," an abstract painting from 1963.

The museum acquired the work in 1965 and says it is worth about $1.5 million.

The gum stuck to the painting's lower left corner and did not adhere to the fiber of the canvas, officials told the Detroit Free Press. But it left a chemical residue about the size of a quarter, said Becky Hart, assistant curator of contemporary art.

The museum's conservation department is researching the chemicals in the gum to decide which solvent to use to clean it. The museum hopes to make the repair in two weeks and will keep "The Bay" on display in the meantime, she said.

"Our expectation is that the painting is going to be fine," Hart said.

Holly Academy director Julie Kildee said the boy had been suspended from the charter school and says his parents also have disciplined him.

"Even though we give very strict guidelines on proper behavior and we hold students to high standards, he is only 12 and I don't think he understood the ramifications of what he did before it happened, but he certainly understands the severity of it now," said Kildee.

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lol "woops!"

lol

what a little turd

lawlness

lmfao

So what? It's a painting, the gum adds "character"

i'm the master of surreal art.

LAWLS A LOT SMORBEN MEMEBER

[quote:94ee7]I don't think he understood the ramifications of what he did before it happened[/quote:94ee7]

So the fucking retard didnt know that he wasnt supposed to stick his fucking gum on a painting in a god damn museum? Shoot the retard for no other reason than he is an obvious burden to society.

So the fucking retard didnt know that he wasnt supposed to stick his fucking gum on a painting in a god damn museum? Shoot the retard for no other reason than he is an obvious burden to society.[/quote:065e8]


or soon to be

tee hee hee, he said "little".....hee hee tee hee

Now 'The Bay' is trendy again
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Every time I see that painting, it always makes me laugh, after watching that mr bean movie happy:

jesus christ how can anyone be so disrespectfull?
My brother got in trouble when he was in Washington DC for swinging his bag around his side in an art gallery

So the fucking retard didnt know that he wasnt supposed to stick his fucking gum on a painting in a god damn museum? Shoot the retard for no other reason than he is an obvious burden to society.[/quote:a9484]

I don't think he knew the painting was 1.5 mil, so you have to have some understanding..... neah shoot the fucker.

yeah lol

Were those stars in Kurt Cobain's room? .... or holes from the shotgun blast?

I don't think he knew the painting was 1.5 mil, so you have to have some understanding..... neah shoot the fucker.[/quote:7e760]

I dont care if its worth $10, little fucker should have known better than to fuck with a museums shit.

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