Tisch allegedly caused $10,000 worth of damage to the painting. Tisch was charged with felony criminal mischief and has been held on a $20,000 bond since the incident in late December, said Lynn Kimbrough, spokeswoman for the Denver District Attorney's Office.
The suspect was apparently drunk at the time. Kimbrough said Tisch urinated after she rubbed up against the canvas at the recently opened Clyfford Still museum in Denver. "It doesn't appear she urinated on the painting or that the urine damaged it, so she's not being charged with that," Kimbrough said.
A Denver art gallery owner, Ivar Zeile, said that the painting could probably be restored as long as the canvas wasn't pierced. "It does damage the piece, though, even people just knowing what happened," he added.
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It was probably an improvement. What a horrible painting.
Man, $30 million for that thing? I need to get me some art supplies and a good PR/marketing rep.
It's a peculiar thing, art.
In my first year at senior school, a very strict Grammar school, with my first art teacher, every term I came in the bottom 5 out of 30 something pupils.
In the second year with a different art teacher, in the 1st term I came top of the class, in the second I was 2nd and in the third term I was top again.
The third year I had the same art teacher I'd had in the first and again, every term I came in the bottom five again.
I suppose it's all about perception.
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