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03-01-2017, 09:25 AM
Some poor soul broke an $800,000 sculpture while trying to take a selfie
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Sometimes, art begets art. And sometimes, it destroys it.
Case in point: just days after Yayoi Kusama's immersive Infinity Mirrors debuted at Washington D.C.'s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, a visitor crushed one of her signature pumpkins while trying to take a selfie.
SEE ALSO: You can **w take selfies... with your feet? (http://mashable.com/2017/02/04/selfies-with-your-feet/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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A pumpkin similar to the broken pumpkin. RIP, pumpkin.
Image: Mathis Wienand/Getty Images
According to Artnet (https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/selfie-smashes-kusama-pumpkin-hirshhorn-museum-873071), a similar pumpkin sold at auction for nearly $800,000 in 2015. So this was a pretty expensive goof.
The room containing the smashed pumpkin — which has attracted legions of selfie-takers since it opened — shut down following the incident, but fret **t, pumpkin-lovers: it will reopen soon (https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/selfie-smashes-kusama-pumpkin-hirshhorn-museum-873071) in all its Instagram-friendly glory. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/02/28/sculpture-broken-selfie/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Sometimes, art begets art. And sometimes, it destroys it.
Case in point: just days after Yayoi Kusama's immersive Infinity Mirrors debuted at Washington D.C.'s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, a visitor crushed one of her signature pumpkins while trying to take a selfie.
SEE ALSO: You can **w take selfies... with your feet? (http://mashable.com/2017/02/04/selfies-with-your-feet/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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A pumpkin similar to the broken pumpkin. RIP, pumpkin.
Image: Mathis Wienand/Getty Images
According to Artnet (https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/selfie-smashes-kusama-pumpkin-hirshhorn-museum-873071), a similar pumpkin sold at auction for nearly $800,000 in 2015. So this was a pretty expensive goof.
The room containing the smashed pumpkin — which has attracted legions of selfie-takers since it opened — shut down following the incident, but fret **t, pumpkin-lovers: it will reopen soon (https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/selfie-smashes-kusama-pumpkin-hirshhorn-museum-873071) in all its Instagram-friendly glory. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/02/28/sculpture-broken-selfie/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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