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It's frankly hard to imagine somebody putting a Picasso in that position. Look at the height of the painting! Look at how low the wall it's resting on is! Look

It's frankly hard to imagine somebody putting a Picasso in that position. Look at the height of the painting! Look at how low the wall it's resting on is! Look at the surface it's sitting on! How is it that nobody there has their intuitive every-day-physics alarms going off??

Nition 5y ago
What really got me is how immediately after it fell, they put it back exactly the same.
jbuhbjlnjbn 5y ago
Sometimes, you need to be honest even if harsh - the people putting a picasso painting on that space to fall off are incompetent fools who should never touch expensive art in the first place...
- heavenlyblue 5y ago
  How much of your salary are you willing to sacrifice in order for police to be able to afford such competent smarts?
  - subroutine 5y ago
    $3.50
    - dylan604 5y ago
      In other words, the same amount the government is willing to pay you to do your civic duty of sitting as a juror.
- chmod775 5y ago
  "Local man surprised police officer who makes $15.50 an hour lacks qualifications to handle $100m artwork." Who cares. It's just a piece canvas that derives its value from provenance, not condition.
  - wpietri 5y ago
    You've confused value and price. Its price may not be affected by deterioration. But its value to people who study art is absolutely affected by the shape it's in. The most obvious example is "Ecce Mono", item 15 on a list of botched restorations here: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/art-history-restoration-fails-1591327 https://news.artnet.com/art-world/art-history-restoration-fa...
    - coldtea 5y ago
      > But its value to people who study art is absolutely affected by the shape it's in. Who cares for its value "to people who study art"? It's also contigent on BS cultural norms. It's not even some objectively impressive artwork. Not to mention that Picasso mass produced tons of them after he got famous, for easy money...
      - wpietri 5y ago
        Who cares? People who study art. People who care about people who study art. And almost everything is contingent on "BS cultural norms". Most of the rest is contingent on random evolutionary history. If your point is that everything is ridiculous, I certainly agree. But I disagree that the things other people care about are more ridiculous than the things I care about. It's all bananas.
    - stavros 5y ago
      > But its value to people who study art is absolutely affected by the shape it's in. > The most obvious example is "Ecce Mono", item 15 on a list of botched restorations here You are right, but probably not for the reason you think. Ecce Mono had no value until it was botched, and then it became famous. So, yes, its value to people who study art probably is affected by the shape it's in, but it's anyone's guess whether the value of the Picasso will go down or up now that it's "the Picasso that fell on the floor".
      - wpietri 5y ago
        You are also confusing value and price. Ecce Homo lasted 90 years and was important enough to the people responsible for it that they wanted to restore it. Those are clear signs of value. You're right that the open-market price of Ecce Mono, were it ever to be cut out and sold, has gone up due to its global meme status. You're also right that the price of the Picasso could well go up due to notoriety.
swader999 5y ago
And touching it with their bare hands getting finger prints on the canvas.

Nition 5y ago

What really got me is how immediately after it fell, they put it back exactly the same.

jbuhbjlnjbn 5y ago

Sometimes, you need to be honest even if harsh - the people putting a picasso painting on that space to fall off are incompetent fools who should never touch expensive art in the first place...

heavenlyblue 5y ago
How much of your salary are you willing to sacrifice in order for police to be able to afford such competent smarts?
- subroutine 5y ago
  $3.50
  - dylan604 5y ago
    In other words, the same amount the government is willing to pay you to do your civic duty of sitting as a juror.
chmod775 5y ago
"Local man surprised police officer who makes $15.50 an hour lacks qualifications to handle $100m artwork." Who cares. It's just a piece canvas that derives its value from provenance, not condition.
- wpietri 5y ago
  You've confused value and price. Its price may not be affected by deterioration. But its value to people who study art is absolutely affected by the shape it's in. The most obvious example is "Ecce Mono", item 15 on a list of botched restorations here: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/art-history-restoration-fails-1591327 https://news.artnet.com/art-world/art-history-restoration-fa...
  - coldtea 5y ago
    > But its value to people who study art is absolutely affected by the shape it's in. Who cares for its value "to people who study art"? It's also contigent on BS cultural norms. It's not even some objectively impressive artwork. Not to mention that Picasso mass produced tons of them after he got famous, for easy money...
    - wpietri 5y ago
      Who cares? People who study art. People who care about people who study art. And almost everything is contingent on "BS cultural norms". Most of the rest is contingent on random evolutionary history. If your point is that everything is ridiculous, I certainly agree. But I disagree that the things other people care about are more ridiculous than the things I care about. It's all bananas.
  - stavros 5y ago
    > But its value to people who study art is absolutely affected by the shape it's in. > The most obvious example is "Ecce Mono", item 15 on a list of botched restorations here You are right, but probably not for the reason you think. Ecce Mono had no value until it was botched, and then it became famous. So, yes, its value to people who study art probably is affected by the shape it's in, but it's anyone's guess whether the value of the Picasso will go down or up now that it's "the Picasso that fell on the floor".
    - wpietri 5y ago
      You are also confusing value and price. Ecce Homo lasted 90 years and was important enough to the people responsible for it that they wanted to restore it. Those are clear signs of value. You're right that the open-market price of Ecce Mono, were it ever to be cut out and sold, has gone up due to its global meme status. You're also right that the price of the Picasso could well go up due to notoriety.

swader999 5y ago

And touching it with their bare hands getting finger prints on the canvas.