{"id":9369,"date":"2011-11-04T13:21:58","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T17:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=9369"},"modified":"2011-11-04T13:22:34","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T17:22:34","slug":"art-is-obviously-in-the-eyes-of-the-beholder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=9369","title":{"rendered":"Art Is Obviously In The Eyes Of The Beholder"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Metro-Net_Dawson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured\" title=\"Martin Kippenberger at his METRO-Net Subway st...\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/e\/e8\/Metro-Net_Dawson.jpg\" alt=\"Martin Kippenberger at his METRO-Net Subway st...\" width=\"230\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via Wikipedia<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Yesterday John Hinderaker at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2011\/11\/swept-away.php\">Power Line<\/a>\u00a0posted a story about a cleaning woman at the\u00a0Ostwall Museum in Dortmund, Germany, who damaged a sculpture while cleaning it.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>A cleaning woman at a museum in Dortmund who mistook a Martin Kippenberger sculpture for an unsightly mess has destroyed the valuable artwork beyond recognition.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The cleaner at the city\u2019s Ostwall Museum went to work on the Kippenberger installation entitled \u201cWhen It Starts Dripping From the Ceiling\u201d which was valued by insurers at \u20ac800,000 ($1.1 million), a museum spokeswoman said on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The late contemporary master had created a tower of wooden slats under which a rubber trough was placed with a thin beige layer of paint representing dried rain water. Taking it for an actual stain, the cleaner scrubbed the surface until it gleamed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0I&#8217;m sorry. I find this hilarious. I guess I just don&#8217;t understand how art is valued. The cleaning lady can come to my house any time she wants&#8211;she obviously likes things clean and neat!<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=777d4624-2322-40fc-a884-b0f5c118cb79\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday John Hinderaker at Power Line\u00a0posted a story about a cleaning woman at the\u00a0Ostwall Museum in Dortmund, Germany, who damaged a sculpture while cleaning it. The article reports: A cleaning woman at a museum in Dortmund who mistook a Martin &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=9369\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1093,1090,1088,1092,1087,1089,1091],"class_list":["post-9369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cleaner","tag-domestic-worker","tag-dortmund","tag-germany","tag-martin-kippenberger","tag-museum","tag-ostwall-museum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9369"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9386,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9369\/revisions\/9386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}