This is good news
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-20444436
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 13 Dec 2012, 14:57, 4 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

' Outside court before the sentencing, Ben Smith, who called himself a "yellowist", attempted to explain the concept: "Everything is equal. Everything is art.

"Everything is a potential piece of yellowism." '

I would like to expand this by adding "and Ben Smith is clearly a fucking cunt"
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 13 Dec 2012, 15:00, Reply)

He certainly is.

(Bazongaloid, Thu 13 Dec 2012, 15:01, Reply)

i bet he never thought he'd actually be jailed, fucking prick
i hope the other prisoners use his arsehole as a piece of yellowjism
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 13 Dec 2012, 15:01, Reply)

No, I'm sorry but it cannot cost £200,000 to repair a fucking painting by someone who is still alive
It has no fucking intrinsic value and spending that much money on a piece of canvas is fucking obscene. If the artist is that upset he can paint another fucking picture.

What a load of shit.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 13 Dec 2012, 15:00, Reply)

Mark Rothko is dead.

( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Thu 13 Dec 2012, 15:01, Reply)

Still don't care
it's obscene to spend that much money on a picture.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 13 Dec 2012, 15:05, Reply)

I suppose you'd rather give it to some disabled homosexual immigrant with 6 kids and no father?

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 13 Dec 2012, 15:07, Reply)

I'd rather give it to Golden Dawn to stop teh white genocide that is currently taking place in the UK
WERE IN THE MINORITY NOW YOU NO!!!!!!
(Bazongaloid, Thu 13 Dec 2012, 15:09, Reply)

I must admit I don't get this
if it can be repaired, it requires, well, paint. Paint does not cost £200,000.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 13 Dec 2012, 15:03, Reply)

While I am not excusing the cost and I am a total art philistine
It's not like they need to slap a layer of Dulux on it. It's a complex job that will need to be done carefully and painstakingly by experts.

Maybe Cecilia Gimenez is free?
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Thu 13 Dec 2012, 15:05, Reply)

I'm being facetious
It still doesn't really cost that to restore a fucking painting. I could reproduce that picture perfectly on a grain of sand using a femtosecond laser and an atomic force microscope and it'd still cost about a tenth of that.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 13 Dec 2012, 15:15, Reply)

Could you? Could you really?
(NB I am being serious, could you really do that? If yes you have SKILLZ)
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Thu 13 Dec 2012, 15:17, Reply)

Probably.
Although, these days I'd probably have to get one of my postdocs to do it, I'm well out of practice at anything other than politics and arguing with funding bodies.

My group usually uses femtosecond lasers for etching internal microchannels in glass blocks and my AFM is set up for cell imaging rather than this kind of guff. But it's perfectly doable.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 13 Dec 2012, 15:20, Reply)

What happens if you sneeze?

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 13 Dec 2012, 15:22, Reply)

I don't mean generally, I mean, in direct relation to if you're doing one of those paintings.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 13 Dec 2012, 15:22, Reply)

With an AFM?
All your data is fucked, usually. Mine's set up in an acoustic isolation housing on an air table and even then closing a door 30 feet away buggers it.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 13 Dec 2012, 15:23, Reply)

Has anyone sneezed and the bad-data produced good results that wasn't expected?
Like that guy who invented gravity when the apple fell on his head.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 13 Dec 2012, 15:27, Reply)

It writes "CUNT" on the inside of your eyelids

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Thu 13 Dec 2012, 15:24, Reply)

THey don't paint over it, they remove the paint off the top with chemicals and microscopes.
It's a painstaking and very specialist job.
That said the art restorer obviously saw them coming.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 13 Dec 2012, 15:09, Reply)

see above

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 13 Dec 2012, 15:15, Reply)

My art teacher once ripped up my artwork and threw me out the classroom 'cus I was fucking around,
and I said to her "It's still art though, you shouldn't rip it up, its not what you told me to do, but isn't that the point of art?". A few days later she appologised to me. This was also the teacher who threw me out the class 'cus she asked the class "What is it called when you use your fingers to paint" and I put my hand up and said "fingering", and the class errupted in laughter but I didn't know why at the time.

Anyway, to the point, is one art more valueable than another? As an art commision, isn't undoing all his work (scribbling his name'n'shit) pretty much going against it's entire ethos? Ain't it all about getting people to talk about it?
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 13 Dec 2012, 15:31, Reply)

2 years? For drawing on some poxy painting?

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Thu 13 Dec 2012, 15:03, Reply)

i got less for writing my name in spunk on your mums face!

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 13 Dec 2012, 15:05, Reply)

Your name is "…"?

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Thu 13 Dec 2012, 15:09, Reply)

Slim Shady.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 13 Dec 2012, 15:21, Reply)

Exactly!

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Thu 13 Dec 2012, 15:23, Reply)

Given that it's almost impossible to get locked up for actually assaulting people
two years seems a touch unrealistic.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 13 Dec 2012, 15:06, Reply)

I think he should be forced to go to a Mark Rothko exhibition everyday for two years.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Thu 13 Dec 2012, 15:29, Reply)

The judge also said the incident had led to galleries reviewing security arrangements at a cost to themselves and the taxpayer.
I can't work out how this is ever a bad thing.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 13 Dec 2012, 15:21, Reply)

Shouldn't be spending taxpayers money on art. Or galleries.
I am glad the EBacc is drumming all of this kind of nonsense out of the curriculam.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Thu 13 Dec 2012, 15:26, Reply)

Nah' man, people come from all over the world to see the london museiums, and that relates to profit.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 13 Dec 2012, 15:27, Reply)

Forrins, Gonz.
I don't think we want their sort here.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Thu 13 Dec 2012, 15:28, Reply)

You're alright, you got a wife, you don't need the brasses.
I'd be fucked, or more like, I wouldn't be, if they got rid of 'em all.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 13 Dec 2012, 15:32, Reply)

Obviously the inexpensive prostitutes will be allowed to stay.
And the sexy students from Amsterdam. Marvellous.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Thu 13 Dec 2012, 15:36, Reply)

Hopefully the spelling of 'curriculum' will be brought back as a 'core subject'

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 13 Dec 2012, 15:32, Reply)

Hahahaha.
Michael Gove will be spinning on your finger.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Thu 13 Dec 2012, 15:35, Reply)