Since Gawker now covers art : A woman at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Friday got way too excited about Picasso’s “The Actor”. She fell into it, ripping a six-inch hole in the rare Rose Period painting. Update: A tipster sends in additional details about the circumstances surrounding the great Picasso Tearing of 2010, which they claim to have heard from a Met security guard: There was a group of students touring the 20th century area and a special needs kid was sitting on the floor or leaning on the wall, went to get up, tripped and tore a six inch long hole in Picasso’s ‘actors’.
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Woman Who Fell into Picasso Painting Not Magically Transported to World of Cubism
