Tourists damage crystal-covered chair in Italian museum by sitting on it
Tourists damage crystal-covered chair in Italian museum by sitting on it
Palazzo Maffei in Verona contacts police after visitors cause Van Gogh’s Chair to buckle while posing for photos
Having found a picture of the chair before it was sat on, this man did the world a favor. It looks like someone bedazzled a crappy chair with very over priced crystals. This chair trades on names like Swarofki and Van Gogh but has no artistic merit of its own.
And before some says "art is subjective" please note my subject view above.
slop art
If it’s so important, why was it just on the floor with no protection around it?
Countermeasures are often created by encountering the problem rather than by any foresight
In the Wyoming and Montana (Yellowstone) area we call these people "tourons" (tourist morons). Sitting on a priceless piece of art or petting a giant bison, it all comes from the same place. Profound stupidity driven by an unhinged sense of privilege.
To be fair, some of us are just really stupid sometimes.
The video shows, it isn't that they accidentally sat in a seat, but they were posing as if they were going to sit on it, but fell back into it.
To me it appears that he didn't sit on it at first, but then changed his mind and sat down. I'm convinced that what you saw as him falling onto it is because he sat on it and then the legs buckled. The buckling caused him to fall further back, because the legs were stronger when they were straight.
Yes, but that headline would get less clicks.
The museum is mad that they left after that, but honestly I'd be pretty terrified going up to them and mentioning that I'd fallen into a priceless artifact and broken it. In theory, they didn't put up glass, and as professionals knew that means there's a risk accidents could happen. In practice, maybe they're short on funds and whatever bureaucrat sees suing me as a way out.
It's fairly clear that he meant to touch and put at least some weight on it on his 2nd attempt. He only stumbled after the chair gave way.
But the artist said he could see a “positive side” to the incident. “It’s like a kind of performance. Ordinary people can do it too, not just artists.”
Artist speak for: this is so fucking funny I'll allow it😂😂
That's a healthy approach.
My brother is one of the more intelligent and scientifically-minded people I know, but I'll never forget the time we went to the Detroit Institute of Arts and he got yelled at for touching too many exhibits.
Curiosity is integral to being scientifically minded.
True. You don't need wisdom to be a good scientist.
"and off they go. Indifferent to what happened"
Not sure about that. The guy was shitting bricks and they scurried off pretty fast.
They better not put up a crystal-covered toilet.
Why would you cover Van Gogh‘s chair in crystals? I love art but I could do without some artworks.
It isn’t actually Van Gogh’s chair, that’s just the name of the piece. It’s described as having a delicate inner structure covered in crystals (probably a wire frame). It’s not a real chair, which is why it collapsed instantly – it wasn’t created to hold any weight.
Wonder if the point is it's supposed to be gaudy?
