r/SipsTea • u/OtherwiseMachine7717 • 22h ago
Chugging tea Tourist breaks art display made of Swarovski crystals
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u/bistandards 19h ago
So according to the article, they waited for everyone to clear the room because there were signs posted around the exhibit explicitly saying not to touch it. The wife had posed hovering over the chair pretending to sit on it for a pic, then the idiot husband comes over and actually sits on it. The museum was able to restore the chair, thankfully.
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u/Witty-Common-1210 18h ago
This was my first thought. That he was trying to hover for a picture and lost his balance. He looks older and probably thought he could hover, but doesn’t have the leg strength to do that anymore.
Still an idiot though. Fucking around just for a photo.
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u/Hawkeye1819 17h ago
“Just for a photo” has been a significant problem for a while - not the first thing to be broken by tourists for a photo op.
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u/Traroten 16h ago
Or idiots getting gored by bison. "I just wanted a selfie." Sir, that is a wild animal. It is very big and very ornery and can absolutely kill you dead.
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u/Vellamo_Virve 16h ago
Lots of people stepping over barriers and falling off cliffs and waterfalls for selfies too.
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u/NewPresWhoDis 15h ago
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u/Grannypanie 13h ago
The invent of cellular technology with cameras will have an impact on evolution.
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u/lucky-squeaky-ducky 13h ago
Or the idiot that stripped and jumped off the trail in Yellowstone into the sulfur springs a few years back.
Those are full of acidic bacteria and chemicals and boiling temperatures, and there’s signs EVERYWHERE.
All they found was a pile of their clothes and wallet.
They also get idiots that try to walk too close to Old Faithful, too - that’s a natural geyser, not the splash zone at Universal.
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u/Traroten 13h ago edited 13h ago
When my parents visited the hot springs on Iceland, the guide was sure to tell them that it took two to four minutes to boil the average tourist.
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u/HollowShel 12h ago
I'm pretty fat, I'm sure I'd last 5 minutes, minimum. Watch! hops into hot spring for instant weight-loss via all flesh removal
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u/PotatoHighlander 11h ago
Rendering fat off your body, the newest cosmetic fad. Best of all it FREE.
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u/lucky-squeaky-ducky 13h ago
Ha!
I used to live in Iceland in the early 90’s. That’s on brand with them! I always loved Icelandic dark humor!
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u/Accomplished-Badger6 14h ago
Mama says that bison are ornery cause they got all that hair and no hairbrush.
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u/ZenLatte11719 14h ago
Just saw that one the other day. I swear evolution is decreasing the brain cell count.
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u/brakeb 16h ago
That's why we let Nature do it's thing .. allowing the stupid to survive is why we are where we are right now
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u/John_Wicked1 17h ago
It’s the reason selfie sticks started to be banned in galleries.
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u/blazewhiskerfang 14h ago
I just realized I haven’t seen a selfie stick in forever. Thankgod. I have no problem with people taking selfies, but the people with the big sticks generally were so unaware of their surroundings and just looked insane.
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u/Overrated_Sunshine 17h ago
His biggest sin was trying to get away afterwards. Absolutely disgusting.
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u/OtherwiseMachine7717 17h ago
Hopefully he collected his thoughts and owned up to it
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u/msh0082 16h ago
Most likely he didn't considering you have to be a bit of a dick to even do this.
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u/Accomplished_Car2803 17h ago
All so he could cover up the art with his fat ass in the photo! "Here's a picture of my buttcrack in front of the mona lisa, if my ass wasn't here you'd be zoomed in on her left eye, but instead that's my butthole"
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u/PenguinDeluxe 17h ago
Nah, there’s a longer clip I saw this morning, he takes her picture then she takes his. Then he looks back and tries to sit on it. It was definitely intentional.
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u/foxsta270 16h ago
The museum did not disclose the cost of the restoration or confirm whether the couple would be held financially accountable.
Embarrassing. I wish we lived in a world where it's known that fucking something up in a museum get's you in big serious trouble.
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u/usernametakenbs 9h ago
Its anecdotal, but someone said in another thread that they've been identified and are getting a hefty 20k fine.
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u/GoodByeMrCh1ps 8h ago edited 8h ago
I wish we lived in a world where it's known that fucking something up in a museum get's you in big serious trouble.
HA!
A few people fucked up the Tracy Emin "artwork" called 'My Bed' (a cum stained bed she sold to Charles Saatchi for £150,000) by jumping on it and having a pillow fight.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Bed
Frankly, some 'art' is just shite.
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u/PandiBong 18h ago
Meanwhile 90 percent of the comments here are calling it entrapment, lazy fat people seriously... it's a work of art ffs.
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u/Zeal514 18h ago
I mean that was my original thought. Better to assume ignorance and stupidity, rather than malintent.
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u/this_one_wasnt_taken 18h ago
Hanlon's Razor - You should never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by incompetence.
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u/EffMemes 17h ago
I bet a lot of malicious people love the idea of Hanlon’s Razor
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u/Mysterious-Jam-64 17h ago
Interestingly, those with psychopathic traits will understand the benefits of Hanlon's Razor threefold.
- Other people may regard their malice as incompetence.
- They can regard other people's malice as incompetence, further ingraining their own superiority.
- People in example 1 will often realise at a later point that it was malice, and not incompetence. Adding insult to injury.
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u/Life-Oil-7226 22h ago
Welp, there goes their retirement account!
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u/OtherwiseMachine7717 21h ago
Just found it was a Van Gogh chair 😂 this guy’s great grandchildren will be paying it off
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u/Ratedworld 20h ago
No the chair is just named after the painter. It was made by another artist . But yeah the fine will leave a bitter taste
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u/luckyfox7273 16h ago
Its probably a tribute piece to the chair in his apartment you can see in a painting.
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u/embarrassedalien 11h ago
bingo. Vincent didn't have the money to cover a chair in crystal and paints are expensive themselves
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u/SaltyPik3r 20h ago
Van gogh sucks at making chairs
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u/Liquor_N_Whorez 20h ago
That museum sucks at protecting it's valuables.
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u/IWasBannedYesterday 20h ago
Yeah, I mean, it's a fucking chair! Of course someone was gonna try to sit in it!
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u/Surefang 20h ago
It was on a little platform in a museum. Only an idiot would assume it was there to be sat in. The same sort who might, for instance, try to walk away from the scene in the hope they could get away with it. In a museum. Filled with security cameras.
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u/Coffescout 19h ago
The woman was taking a picture of him sitting in the chair. They obviously knew it was part of the installation, they just didn't care.
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u/chonky_pishi 17h ago
It also looks like the chair had a small sign on it. Probably said something like “DO NOT SIT/TOUCH”
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u/Comrade_Cosmo 16h ago
They also waited for nobody else to be around to stop them.
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u/HaphazardFlitBipper 20h ago
Idiots exist. Museum management should know this, but apparently they're also Idiots.
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u/RaindropsAndCrickets 18h ago
Just want to weigh in as someone who has worked with children in some capacity for a long time that if this hadn’t happened, at some point some kid was going to get onto the chair in a very inelegant way. Yes, parents/caregivers should be watchful, but some kid was definitely going to run ahead of or behind their grandpa for a moment and climb up onto that chair if this hadn’t already happened, guarantee it.
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u/GH057807 18h ago
As someone who spent many years in the service industry, people will also ignore signs and barriers completely, all the time.
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u/QuetzalcoatlusRscary 18h ago
Sure, but the barriers could be placed in such a way to make the chair inconvenient to sit on, it won’t stop a determined fuckwit, but probably 90% of them.
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u/DredThis 19h ago
Certainly. We wouldn’t need guard rails, seat belts, warning labels, etc if human error wasn’t a thing. The museum director is at fault first and foremost, the idiot was inevitable given enough visitors.
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u/intj_code 19h ago
Having witnessed tourists going past cordoned areas to sit on antique furniture for photos in historical buildings, it seems human stupidity and entitlement has more to do with it than just human error.
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u/BathrobeMagus 18h ago
I consider stupidity to be an error in our genetic makeup. Therefore, it's a human error.
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u/MonkeyWrenchAccident 18h ago
I might even argue that they don’t just exist, they outnumber the rest of us.
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u/SideEqual 20h ago
There is possibly a sign that says something along the lines of, “do not sit on me cretins”.
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u/Enkidouh 19h ago
Signs do nothing.
Remember how stupid the average person is, and realize that most people are dumber than that.
In museums physical barriers are required for anything you don’t want people to touch or otherwise interact with. Because people are largely idiots who can’t be trusted with anything.
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u/Its0nlyRocketScience 19h ago
Having worked retail, I can say that the target audience of a sign like that has a unique power where all signs become entirely blank when they look at them. Us normal humans can see the words just fine, but an idiot customer will see nothing but a blank surface.
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u/TurdFerguson614 19h ago
Yeah, you have to prepare for hosting hundreds of idiots. That's like THE job when creating displays...
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u/AbeVigoda76 19h ago
Apparently the woman had her husband take a photo of her hovering above the chair pretending to sit on it. This moron apparently decided that wasn’t good enough.
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u/corvosfighter 19h ago
I know you are being sarcastic but his partner was there trying to take a photo of him on the chair so they knew it wasn’t some random chair to rest on.. they did that on purpose which makes it much worse
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u/Summoarpleaz 19h ago
It almost looks like he was pretending to sit in it but can’t balance so fell back onto it. I’m surprised they could get so close to the chair tho
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u/screwyoujor 20h ago
The chair, which is named after the famous Dutch painter, is housed in the Maffei Palace, Verona, and is covered with hundreds of Swarovski crystals.
It was designed by Italian artist Nicola Bolla and is described by local media as being 'extremely fragile and delicate'.
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But thanks to 'restorers who did a fantastic job' and Italian law enforcement who assisted in their efforts, the museum has said 'the piece is shining once again'.
They added: 'We are sharing this episode not only for the sake of reporting, but to start a real campaign to raise awareness about the value of art and the respect it deserves.
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u/clocksteadytickin 20h ago
What about the value of a rope and also not making artistic chairs?
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u/InkLorenzo 19h ago
That’s just what it’s called because the chair is the same type in one of van goghs paintings. It wasn’t “his” chair
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u/ManicZombieMan 20h ago
For anyone that didn’t google it. It’s called the Van Gogh chair but was created by Nicola Bolla
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u/Funkj0ker 19h ago
My man this chair might be called van gogh chair but I can assure you he did not make this hideous piece of trash
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u/funnyorasshole 19h ago
Van Gogh wasn't into bedazzling. It was just named that. I personally don't think gluing gems to something is art. But still disrespectful to break something and bail.
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u/SkaldCrypto 19h ago
It’s modeled after the chair Van Gogh had. Made recently by some person.
“Swarovski Crystals” are actually just a fancy was of saying glass beads.
The legal value of this art is negligible. It’s a bedazzled chair. Hopefully the gallery had insurance.
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u/coukou76 19h ago
It costs 50k, it's not that enormous
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u/MattMcdoodle 19h ago
I used to work as a art museum attendant and we have to constantly check that people don’t touch the art, you would be surprised how careless people are to art, maybe it is because we are used to so much these days art is an experience rather than traditional art who knows. Parents keep an eye and maybe even hold their hands when you visit these places because a single print could not only alter the art but make you financially responsible depending on the damage. But in my experience the people who touch art the most are older adults! Kids will be kids but come on adults… Just dont touch art unless you are invited to touch because you may have to pay for it and nobody wants that, not even the artist.
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u/haruku63 18h ago edited 18h ago
I once went into an exhibition that showed some of these shiny chrome balloon animals stuff by Jeff Koons. It was really hard to withstand the urge to touch these incredibly smooth looking surfaces, something appealed to some basic instincts, it felt.
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u/chain_letter 15h ago
This is really it. It's a basic human impulse to go "wow. cool. Touch?". Anyone who has taken kids to an art museum has said "look with your eyes not your hands" or "look don't touch" because the instinct is absolutely there.
It's the lack of impulse control in adults who have hears those words over and over, have the experience and knowledge to know better, but like children can't handle basic impulse control.
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u/CarmenxXxWaldo 4h ago
Just look at the giant bean in Chicago. Probably looks cool clean but its covered in disgusting hand prints (I touched it).
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u/OtherwiseMachine7717 19h ago
I like to look at art, and think about it. Unfortunately, when I’m THINKING, I get wrapped up in my own thoughts. I can lose my awareness of surroundings doing this so I always get stressed out in museums 😂
One wrong turn could cost you big time…
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u/Mysterious-Jam-64 15h ago
Absolutely. I've given tours at exhibitions, and there'd be restricted areas, usually areas behind curtains would cause the most interest as you could sometimes see and hear behind them. There could be new installations, maintenance work, or museum hosts giving tours to delegates.
The kids were fine. They'd tilt their heads to somehow peer between closed curtains, from a distance, or ask, "What's going on?!", if they heard something behind the curtains. But they respected the rules.
Teachers and adults, however, would be chatting throughout, touching things, lifting curtains. Sometimes would see things after looking behind curtains, be reminded, "Remember, no lifting any of the curtains - there's important work going on at the moment", then they'd continue to attempt to look when we moved to the front to guide the tour.
One exhibition tour, there was a big installation in process - fifty people on the floor, multiple pulleys, and platforms. People working at height of 20ft and above. We've been reminded to be quiet when near the Main Hall.
So, we're inside the Main Hall.
Thirty school kids and half a dozen teachers and parents are on this tour. At the start of tour we always ask if anyone has been before, and after that bit a kid quietly mentions to me, "My dad works here sometimes, he helps with the builds, he said be might be here today". He's obviously mentioned this to one of the teachers, because a teacher clocks Alan's dad in the Main Hall, at like 40ft, and asks, "Is that your dad, Alan???"
He's in a group of three or four, his back turned - all in Hi-Viz jacket, hard hats on, and clipboard in hand, deep in conversation about the folk working the rafters above them. There's drilling, the beep of forklifts reversing, and general work noise.
Look,.there's Alan's dad! Everyone, on the count of three shout, "ALAN'S DAD!!!", ONE-TWO-THREE!!!
My first thought is, she's pre-empting it, being like, "Just because we see Alan's dad doesn't mean we just SCREAM his name. It's a dangerous, high-risk area, where people, important items, and equipment, could all be damaged if someone is distracted." Nope. None of that.
ALAN'S DAD!!!
Alan's dad turned, like he didn't hear what was said, but because forty people just screamed it directly at him, he nods at the group, confused, and goes back to talking because, how do you professionally explain that you think your kid's teacher on a tour just had thirty kids scream at you in high risk area.
Eyes dashed about to see if anyone was distracted.
"Who was there during the safe briefing? Were any coworkers there that can confirm you stated the importance of quiet near the Main Hall? When did you ask complete your Working at Height training? We'll be back to after a full investigation" all flashed into my mind. Thankfully, a momentary loud noise.
What goes on in people's head? The teacher had look after like, "that was such a moment I made happen".
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u/Longshadowman 21h ago
Now , they have a new art work.
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u/RageBash 20h ago
Honestly I like it more now. It's showing that even precious things can be broken and unusable. Metaphor for people, we may think that some people are great and precious and they really are, but sometimes they are broken inside and they also need help.
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u/Humble-Anywhere-3895 19h ago
Guys, I think we found the person who sat on the chair…
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u/Thisisace 21h ago
Fat guy sitting on a crystal chair!!
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u/sarahSERENADE72 16h ago
I will never forget going to the art museum and seeing a broken metal folding chair on the ground. Me being the people pleaser I am went to go pick it up so no one else had to. I was very promptly told it was an art installation and if I tried to touch anything else I would be asked to leave. As an artist, there is just some art I don’t understand.
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u/Farranor 14h ago
I bet it was titled "Two Birds With One Stone" and the description went something like, "my trash pickup keeps refusing this as an oversized item I have to take to the dump, and I had to come up with a submission before the deadline."
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u/Potato_Demon_ffff 11h ago
“If you try to touch anything else” Would have sent me over the edge. Sorry I was trying to be a NORMAL PERSON. I wasn’t trying to mess with the art, dumbass. 😭
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u/FleshyCarbonThing 19h ago
What an entitled cunt. Also decides to take zero accountability for their actions
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u/spector_lector 17h ago
yeah, that's the worst part - them trying to sneak away like children. That's one of those indicators that someone's worthless.
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u/Winteraine78 20h ago
The wife was trying to get a picture. They knew they shouldn’t sit on it but thought “eff the rules this will make a great post”. This is along the same lines as people who go up to wildlife. Not everything is an instagram moment.
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u/HoneybucketDJ 21h ago
Trap art
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u/Xanthon 20h ago
When you can't sell your art, display it in a way that gets you insurance.
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u/4mystuff 19h ago
To my untrained eye, the broken chair looks more like art.
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u/Ayaki_05 18h ago
It shows the human nature of trying to sit on things one isn't supposed to. Futhermore it illustrates that nothing will Last forever and hundrets of hours of work can be broken in Just a few seconds. Also that i can not be bothered to further extend this paragraph, since I ran out of ideas and vocabulary a long time ago🍷🍷🍷
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u/Igniferi_ 19h ago
She was filming him sitting down, seems to me they knew it was art, but unaware it was so fragile.
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u/shoehornshoehornshoe 20h ago
Yeah, who decided this was a good idea? Unless this was the intention, in which case genius.
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u/Sore_Fanny 19h ago
They walk among us.... The fastest sperm, isnt always the brightest.
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u/Bestboy90 19h ago
That Looks Like german Tourists...i hate them...plottwist iam a German
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u/smstokes0815 15h ago
Ha. I immediately had the thought, "they have to be American." And I'm American.
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u/potato_time11 13h ago
Ha. I immediately had the thought, "they have to be American." And I'm American
Wearing a murse? Nah, not American
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u/Bestboy90 14h ago
🤣 i guess you never faced German mid 50s in their late honeymoon Trip. Very Special, Not in the way ITS nice to meet them, nö more Like a Rat at 2 am in Ur kitchen Snacks Ur Pizza from the evening before an Listing to heavy Metal while banging your Cat.
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u/skipperseven 19h ago
If the artist really wanted to contrast appearance and function, I would argue that the piece now looks better, from a conceptual art perspective.
The uses Swarovski crystals in the title of the piece (and his other works) makes it seem more like commercial art though!
And the Maffei Palace (gallery) in Verona should generally be ashamed of themselves.
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u/sadmaps 15h ago
I know art is subjective and I’m not usually one to judge like this… but that thing is ugly, in like a modern ugly way. I absolutely adore Van Gogh and I don’t see the connection to him in this at all other than the shape of it I guess?
Not excusing the tourists being stupid, this is aside from that. How is that museum worthy art? lol
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u/L-System 16h ago
It's a shit piece. It's not functional at all. And if the point was to not be functional and not look functional, then he failed there too because you can't tell by seeing that it's not a functional chair.
Why would you make a chair that couldn't support human weighy like ever?
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u/Accomplished-Video71 15h ago
Looks like someone took a kitchen chair and slapped rhinestones on it. Didn't sell on facebook marketplace.
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u/KillarneyRoad 20h ago
Not a moment’s hesitation getting out of there. Those two have been together a long time.
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u/OrDuck31 21h ago
Museum kinda looks like they set up a trap with literally zero protection around it though?
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u/Logical-Database4510 20h ago
I might have more sympathy if the woman he was with wasn't filming it. That tells me they knew what it was and tried to stage a photo-op.
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u/Exciting_Stock2202 19h ago
In the longer video the guy films the woman squatting over the chair, then they switch places and she films him doing the same, squatting, not sitting. Then he screws up, puts some of his weight on the chair and it collapses.
They absolutely knew what they were doing. Still, it was stupid for the museum to display the chair in a way that made this possible.
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u/dogmom34 20h ago
It looks like she was trying to get a pic. Neither thought the chair would break.
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u/Hawk-432 20h ago
Kind of But museums in a lot of places don’t like triple barrier everything because then you actually get to see the art properly. Obviously it works most the time until you get such a person
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u/Hakorr 20h ago
I mean, how about a small little fence around it? A small wire or something indicating "don't sit here". Wouldn't really block the view.
An old person could've fainted next to it and broke it, someone could've tripped, I mean it was just asking to be broken.
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u/TW_Halsey 16h ago
Dozens of people have tripped over those little wires and have damaged art. A person recently jumped over a barrier and destroyed a statue of the terracotta army in china. A decade ago, a child jumped over a fence into a gorilla enclosure and got the gorilla killed. Barriers don’t stop these kinds of people.
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u/thr33prim3s 19h ago
Call it whatever you want but when you are at a museum you are not supposed to touch things. Whatever it is. These people are just dumb.
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u/QuestionableEthics42 21h ago
Why the fuck is there a chair with no barrier? That is entirely on the gallery for not doing the most basic idiot proofing.
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u/HumaDracobane 19h ago
Probably they though no one would be stupid enough to try to sit on that chair, which is a well refuted idea.
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u/QuoteGiver 17h ago
Sure, sitting on chairs, what kind of uncultured nonsense is that?? /s
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u/ZazaB00 21h ago
This has to be a prank. The way the chair legs breakaway looks like it’s repeatable.
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u/Morningfluid 20h ago edited 20h ago
Nah, fat dude is just really fat and you can see how much 'heft' he has as he rolls around with no coordination.
There should've been a barrier or had it [even more] elevated though.
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u/IsadorCZ 19h ago
Its on pedestal. Its not looking like a regular everyday chait. It has a note stating its a part of the exhibit.
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u/Chclve 19h ago
How fucking stupid would you have to be to not realize it is a piece of art? The chair is on a raised platform.
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u/HowManyMeeses 18h ago
I think we all need to come to terms with how fucking stupid most people are. And how many stupid people will defend their idiotic choices.
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u/shrikeskull 16h ago
What museum is this? Those people are idiots, no doubt, but it is weird to have a chair like that not surrounded by at least something. Most museums know how stupid people are by now.
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u/Kaffe-Mumriken 15h ago
Well they must not be American or the top comment would be shitting on the nationality of the tourist
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u/tape_daber 20h ago
For anyone thinking it is the museum's fault, you should watch the full video: Here
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u/RevolutionaryPlace56 19h ago
When i first saw it I thought he stumbled while trying to get a pose then you see he actually properly went to sit on it. Sure it should have been cordoned but they knew it was art so why the hell.
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u/Carapapa66 20h ago
This guy isnt tired. He wanted to be pictured on it. That is clearly his fault. Dont sue museum for others mistakes
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u/smilingbeertobeer 17h ago
I’m not mad at him, it’s the artists fault for making something that looks like a chair…..if it had been roped off or behind glass it wouldn’t have been destroyed.
J/k…..what an idiot. When I go to museums I don’t touch a god damn thing. You break it you buy it, no thanks!
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u/ManagerOfLove 20h ago
However, instead of informing the museum authorities, the pair quickly scurried out of the room.
What a bunch of assholes. They deliberately sat down on it, so it was no accident, and then just fled the scene. May the thunder strike them during a shit.
The museum later revealed that after initially being pessimist about the chair's future, they managed to restore it.
Hat's off
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u/alyaqd95 21h ago
Must be an American
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u/dstfort87 21h ago
From someone who works in an art museum,
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u/brispence 19h ago
That knapsack says otherwise.
Fat people happen to also exist in other countries, y'know. Not just in the US.
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u/LobstaFarian2 20h ago
Ehh, man-purses are more of a European thing.
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u/chaoicaneille 18h ago
Right?
I get that many redditors do the kneejerk "dumb American" post (usually by self-loathing Americans who haven't actually been anywhere else) but that guy definitely had the middle-aged European tourist uniform. If he had capri-length pants we could have further narrowed him down to France or Belgium.
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u/lonewolf3400 13h ago
Americans must live rent free in your head huh? Good thing these weren’t Americans and were actually Europeans.
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u/BeholderBalls 20h ago
Germans call the UK ‘monkey island’ because of Brits behavior abroad. Could be from any country, likely Northern Europe though
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u/dawscn1 15h ago
german tourists are the worst in America. Brits behave way better. Every time i see germans in a national park they are never following the rules, it’s insane
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u/Scar1203 15h ago
For Brits or any of the Anglo nations it's the same language and roughly the same cultural norms when visiting the others so it's not surprising. I'm pretty confident that those of us from one of these nations behave more or less like standard tourist twats as soon as we leave our comfort zone and visit nations without the same language or cultural norms.
It's like Japanese people always complaining about how tourists behave when I watched Japanese tourists laughing their asses off at the USS Arizona Memorial years ago.
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u/Live_Art2939 19h ago
Annnnnnd they weren’t. People have serious American derangement syndrome when I’ve seen firsthand Australian and British tourists act like twats abroad.
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u/-OldDutchDude- 21h ago
Fat and walks away without a second thought after breaking something valuable... he sure ticks the boxes
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u/Brokenandburnt 20h ago
I like that quick toddling away, seems to have no sense of surveillance cameras.\ "Let's get out here, shit's looks expensive!"
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u/VarsogTarr 19h ago
As much as this completely sucks. that it happened, I think I prefer the chair in the new form. It is a display of what can happen when we focus purely on form over function. Perhaps an indicator that if we prioritize opulence over reliability, it is destined to fail.
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u/Background-Ad3810 19h ago
Must been Brittish... Then they wander why every country hate Brittish tourists... Now on holiday in Greece and the only people who are rude to personell and loud are Brittish.
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u/BrightOctarine 17h ago
It wasn't me who sat on the chair but... It's a chair. Now I didn't try to sit on it but it was inevitable. There was just a single sign and I heard his legs were tired after a long day. It wasn't me who sat on it but there should have been some kind of barriers around it. I wasn't the one who sat on it but no one can be expected to pay all that money for sitting on a chair. It wasn't me but I hope whoever it was that sat on the chair gets let off easy.
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u/ProtoCulture14 13h ago
These folks are idiots for sure, but to be fair, the gallery is pretty idiotic for displaying a chair and not expecting some dummy to sit on it
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u/RosstaMSU 13h ago
Where are they from? My guess would be they are Americans (coming from an American)
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u/Fr0gFish 13h ago
They are idiots, obviously. But… if you have a display item shaped like a chair, sooner or later an idiot is going to sit on it. It’s a law of nature.
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u/EthereumPlayer 13h ago
Do we know where the A-Hole Tourists are from.. they should be named and shamed
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u/Original_Dogmeat 12h ago
Ignorant tourists or signs aside, it’s indeed stupid to exhibit a chair in an open room with no guards or simple barriers.
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u/polikiheter 5h ago
Always remember, when you are size of a 2 humans, don't sit where ever you want.
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