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DonCoquixote

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7. I live somehwere

Reply to Egalitarian Thug (Reply #6)

Thu Feb 20, 2014, 03:14 AM

Feb 2014

That needs to learn about other cultures and sometimes learns them at Museums, but may not if people think some local clown will break stuff to make a "statement and an homage." Let's rip the Mona Lisa while we are at it.

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Artist Smashes Ai Weiwei Vase to Protest Museum’s Snub of Local Artists [View all] Recursion Feb 2014 OP

I'm sure being a vandal and a dick will help the cause Scootaloo Feb 2014 #1

Great artists are often only recognized after they are conveniently dead Fumesucker Feb 2014 #2

meh. JVS Feb 2014 #3

I can understand his point, it is perfectly valid. Egalitarian Thug Feb 2014 #4

it is one thing for him to have a point DonCoquixote Feb 2014 #5

It seems that, in his opinion, his action was both a statement and an homage. Egalitarian Thug Feb 2014 #6

I live somehwere DonCoquixote Feb 2014 #7

Supposedly the broken pot is worth a million or so -- because it's actually some ancient pot that El_Johns Feb 2014 #9

Personally not impressed by weiwei's dipped ancient pots as 'art'. IMO weiwei already damaged them El_Johns Feb 2014 #8

well, the asshole that did the damage has his own art online snooper2 Feb 2014 #13

I was expecting Caminero to claim that destroying the $1 million Chinese vase no_hypocrisy Feb 2014 #10

What an asshole. badtoworse Feb 2014 #11

Ai Wei Wei himself broke vases marions ghost Feb 2014 #12

The vase is not worth a million dollars. Brickbat Feb 2014 #14

Museums often overestimate auction appraisals Recursion Feb 2014 #15

Right marions ghost Feb 2014 #17

video of the act Generic Other Feb 2014 #16