Woman damages $30 million painting with buttocks
Art lover Carmen Lucette Tisch.
“Smooth as a baby’s bottom” is clearly not a phrase that can be used to describe the anatomy of a 36-year-old Denver woman accused of damaging a $30 million work of art with her naked posterior.
The art attack caused $10,000 in damage to the Clyfford Still abstract painting entitled “1957-J-No. 2,” The Denver Post reports.
Police say Carmen Lucette Tisch visited Denver’s Clyfford Still Museum Dec. 29 and pulled down her pants before punching the painting, sliding her bottom across it and urinating on herself.
“You have to wonder where her friends were,” said a spokeswoman for the Denver District Attorney’s Office.
Tisch is charged with criminal mischief, a charge punishable by up to 12 years in prison, and held on a $20,000 bond.
The painting can likely be repaired, Denver art gallery owner Ivar Zeile told the Post, adding that “just knowing what happened” to the art piece damages it forever in his mind.
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50 comments Add your comment
Bobo
January 5th, 2012
10:07 pm
Hryder are you talking to me? Because if you are I’m going to come stick my butt through your computer and pee on your keyboard…..and you better not interfere with my right to do so.
BADA BING
January 5th, 2012
10:46 pm
What was Kim K doing in a museum?
Olias
January 5th, 2012
10:56 pm
Here’s a link to the exhibit and the piece. WTH was she thinking.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/multimedia/clyfford_still/8.html
BADA BING
January 5th, 2012
11:09 pm
Maybe Kim K needs to install a beeper to warn others when she is backing up.
TheDuchess
January 6th, 2012
4:29 am
Uhhhh…the last thing on my mind is ‘where are her friends’? Where is her mind???!!!
Hey HaHa...
January 6th, 2012
6:11 am
…this was probably one of your lot. Liberals telling lies about Conservatives would go a long way to ending the “hate.” Now, if you were being sarcastic, my apologies. It’s too early for me to be on the computer, lol.
Relationship Expert
January 6th, 2012
8:27 am
I am shocked that anyone can get so ugly in just 36 years.
Larry Linn
January 7th, 2012
11:09 am
Gee, I thought that the art critics in New York were harsh!
me
January 9th, 2012
12:29 pm
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artsy-fartsy
March 2nd, 2012
11:41 am
Everyone’s a critic…