{"id":642879,"date":"2010-01-25T15:39:34","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T20:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10001263"},"modified":"2010-01-25T15:41:56","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T20:41:56","slug":"you-break-it-you-bought-it-rule-does-not-apply-to-museums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/642879","title":{"rendered":"“You Break It, You Bought It” Rule Does Not Apply To Museums"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Good news for the clumsy, if you stagger into a rare Picasso painting and rip a 6″ hole in it — you will not be charged for the painting. On Friday a woman fell into just such a painting while taking a class at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC.<\/p>\n

The Met’s conservation studio says they can fix it, and that it will be back on display for a Picasso retrospective they are having. <\/p>\n

The museum was kind enough not to identify the woman, who is apparently unhurt.<\/p>\n

This scenario plays through my mind often when visiting museums, it’s good to know that they don’t have you shot right there in the gallery as an example to others.<\/p>\n

Woman Collides With a Picasso<\/a> [NYT via BuzzFeed<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good news for the clumsy, if you stagger into a rare Picasso painting and rip a 6″ hole in it — you will not be charged for the painting. On Friday a woman fell into just such a painting while taking a class at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. The Met’s conservation studio […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2902,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Hf1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2902"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}