Sunday, November 6, 2011

The Woman Who Mistook “Art” For “An Unsightly Mess”


Caveat artifex! If you’ve fashioned “a tower of wooden slats under which a rubber trough [is] placed with a thin beige layer of paint representing dried rain water,” and christened it “When It Starts Dripping From the Ceiling,” a museum cleaning lady may be forgiven for seeing it as something other than a priceless work of genius and going at it with a scrub brush until it gleams. The devil’s in the details.

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  1. That's what happens when you outsource.

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  2. Did she use Scrubbing Bubbles? Kaboom!? Enquiring minds want to know.

    There you go- you might call it ruination, or you might call it restoration, but when the cleaner comes, be prepared for a revelation.

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