In an LA exhibition by artist Simon Birch, a visitor lost her balance and damaged $200,000 worth of art.
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Museumgoer Breaks a Kusama Pumpkin, Allegedly in Pursuit of a Selfie [UPDATED]
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.
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Selfie-Seeking Tourist Topples 18th-Century Sculpture
Another museum has felt the sting of selfie culture, and this time it is in Portugal.
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Watch This ‘Ding Dong’ Clock a Museum Timepiece
Enough is enough — when will museum visitors learn to NOT TOUCH THE ART??!
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Kids Smash Art at Glass Museum While Adults Stand by Filming
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.
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In Quest for Selfie, Tourist Scales and Smashes 126-Year-Old Statue
Another day, another unnecessary, accidental damage of art.
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Soda-Swigging Schoolkid Punches Hole in 17th-Century Painting
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.
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Selfie Snappers Smash Baroque Sculpture in Herculean Feat of Stupidity
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.
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Man Breaks Statue in Quest for Selfie
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.