Tourists damage crystal-covered chair in Italian museum by sitting on it

Countermeasures are often created by encountering the problem rather than by any foresight

Not even a chair frame, but likely a wire frame, probably covered in foil and then crystals. That’s a common method for art pieces. This wasn’t a chair covered in crystals, but a ‘delicate internal structure’ in a chair shape.

e: that’s probably also why it was fairly easy to fix: re-bend the wire, then replace any crystals that fell of. This idiot is lucky he didn’t get a stabilising rod up his proverbial.

I mean, there is that too, lol. I just have better things to do than start a totally subjective art argument.

Also to that point, they've already fixed it. Which might be why they didn't worry about protecting it that much in the first place.

A chair frame covered in glued on glass rhinestones doesn’t really sound priceless. It looks like something you’d buy at TJ Maxx.

To me it appears that he didn't sit on it at first, but then changed his mind and sat down. I'm convinced that what you saw as him falling onto it is because he sat on it and then the legs buckled. The buckling caused him to fall further back, because the legs were stronger when they were straight.

Yes, but that headline would get less clicks.

The museum is mad that they left after that, but honestly I'd be pretty terrified going up to them and mentioning that I'd fallen into a priceless artifact and broken it. In theory, they didn't put up glass, and as professionals knew that means there's a risk accidents could happen. In practice, maybe they're short on funds and whatever bureaucrat sees suing me as a way out.

It's fairly clear that he meant to touch and put at least some weight on it on his 2nd attempt. He only stumbled after the chair gave way.

Look it up yourself. Chinese tourists actually took the top spot quite a while back.

Lmao wtf? I may be stoned, but you're tripping.

Do you live in an alternate timeline or something?

Well yes, but

Nationality


My first guess would be Chinese.

Do we? My first guess was English but they could ofc as easily be American

US, UK, or China, there's no way it's anything else

It's very likely it wasn't someone from the US. We got such a stigma from back in the 70's to 90's that Americans seldom behave like jackass's in Europe anymore.

True. You don't need wisdom to be a good scientist.

Curiosity is integral to being scientifically minded.

Your comment made it sound like the artist had defaced an historical object.

I’m no art critic, but I would interpret the work as a statement on a mundane, usually overlooked object becoming something dazzling and valuable (eta: as literally happened to Van Gogh, and you could go further and say he was sat on and used during life, etc; I can think of much more, but it doesn’t sound like you’ll care), but that’s just me.

Of course it isn‘t. It‘s based on his painting and completely misses the point. It‘s a really stupid piece in a tasteless gallery.

It isn’t actually Van Gogh’s chair, that’s just the name of the piece. It’s described as having a delicate inner structure covered in crystals (probably a wire frame). It’s not a real chair, which is why it collapsed instantly – it wasn’t created to hold any weight.

Wonder if the point is it's supposed to be gaudy?

That's a healthy approach.

Artist speak for: this is so fucking funny I'll allow it😂😂

The pits probably big enough for them

Only if he didn't have kids.

Wow yeah that's a shit way to go.

I did find the one I was thinking of too, I remembered her stumbling around more but she just sorta clumsily sits down next to it (which isn't a great idea either): https://www.instagram.com/p/CtuCmrJAwk6/ (sorry for the insta link)

Mmm… Darwin Award

I like how the video title subtly corrects the article title. "Okay, first of all, it was just his body that dissolved, so jot that down."

It has definitely happened.


I saw one where a lady jumped a guard rail and nearly stumbled and fell into the boiling hot spring she was trying to touch. Because I guess the steam and radiant heat wasn’t enough to tell her it was really fucking hot?

To be fair, some of us are just really stupid sometimes.

When I heard that term for the first time, it was from my wife. We love it and damn did we have to use it a lot towards people in the park.


More like cardboard formed like a chair

Fart is art when it's a performance. But it can only be done by fartists.

They said it was art

But it crumbled before my fart

(Sorry)

At least it's a dumb piece of art. Like, wow, you covered a chair in crystals. You're like a 13 year old girls jacket in the 80's.

Because it's 'art'

I like it. Let's get philosophical on this shit. What even *is* a chair?

If not chair. Why chair shape?

In the Wyoming and Montana (Yellowstone) area we call these people "tourons" (tourist morons). Sitting on a priceless piece of art or petting a giant bison, it all comes from the same place. Profound stupidity driven by an unhinged sense of privilege.

Nowhere does it mention the nationality of the tourists, but somehow we all immediately know..

>But the artist said he could see a “positive side” to the incident. “It’s like a kind of performance. Ordinary people can do it too, not just artists.”

The video shows, it isn't that they accidentally sat in a seat, but they were posing as if they were going to sit on it, but fell back into it.

My brother is one of the more intelligent and scientifically-minded people I know, but I'll never forget the time we went to the Detroit Institute of Arts and he got yelled at for touching too many exhibits.

>"and off they go. Indifferent to what happened"

Not sure about that. The guy was shitting bricks and they scurried off pretty fast.

If it’s so important, why was it just on the floor with no protection around it?

They better not put up a crystal-covered toilet.

Having found a picture of the chair before it was sat on, this man did the world a favor. It looks like someone bedazzled a crappy chair with very over priced crystals. This chair trades on names like Swarofki and Van Gogh but has no artistic merit of its own.

And before some says "art is subjective" please note my subject view above.

slop art

Why would you cover Van Gogh‘s chair in crystals? I love art but I could do without some artworks.