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Posing for Photo, Gallery Visitor Topples Row of Pedestals Like Dominos [UPDATED]

by Claire Voon July 13, 2017November 2, 2017

In an LA exhibition by artist Simon Birch, a visitor lost her balance and damaged $200,000 worth of art.

Posted inNews

Museumgoer Breaks a Kusama Pumpkin, Allegedly in Pursuit of a Selfie [UPDATED]

by Claire Voon February 27, 2017November 2, 2017

According to museum visitors, someone attempting to take a selfie in Yayoi Kusama’s newest mirror room fell into the gleaming patch of pumpkin sculptures and broke one of them.

Posted inIn Brief

Selfie-Seeking Tourist Topples 18th-Century Sculpture

by Claire Voon November 10, 2016November 2, 2017

Another museum has felt the sting of selfie culture, and this time it is in Portugal.

Posted inIn Brief

Watch This ‘Ding Dong’ Clock a Museum Timepiece

by Claire Voon June 3, 2016November 2, 2017

Enough is enough — when will museum visitors learn to NOT TOUCH THE ART??!

Posted inIn Brief

Kids Smash Art at Glass Museum While Adults Stand by Filming

by Claire Voon May 23, 2016June 3, 2016

Just when you’d thought you’d seen it all when it comes to art-breaking mishaps (selfie seekers, I’m looking at you), along comes this incredible footage from China of two boys fracturing a sculpture in the Shanghai Museum of Glass.

Posted inIn Brief

In Quest for Selfie, Tourist Scales and Smashes 126-Year-Old Statue

by Claire Voon May 9, 2016June 3, 2016

Another day, another unnecessary, accidental damage of art.

Posted inIn Brief

Soda-Swigging Schoolkid Punches Hole in 17th-Century Painting

by Claire Voon August 25, 2015November 2, 2017

A trip to an art exhibition in Taipei ended in a less-than-ideal manner for a 12-year-old boy, who tripped and broke his fall by sticking his fist through a painting — thereby realizing everyone’s worst museum-related nightmare.

Posted inIn Brief

Selfie Snappers Smash Baroque Sculpture in Herculean Feat of Stupidity

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton May 4, 2015November 2, 2017

On Friday two tourists visiting the northern Italian city of Cremona broke part of an 18th-century sculpture they were climbing to take a selfie.

Posted inOpinion

Man Breaks Statue in Quest for Selfie

by Jillian Steinhauer March 19, 2014June 3, 2016

It’s one thing for people to take selfies with works of art; it’s another to climb on the art in order to get a photo and break it in the process.

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