Woman's selfie causes '$200,000 of damage' to artworks – but was it a stunt?

[Bo-4]

You be the judge - Interesting performance art and stunt i think .. it's not security camera video (too shaky .. taken by someone poised with a smart phone).

A woman in Los Angeles has apparently demonstrated just how damaging selfies can be by destroying whole row of pieces of art while trying to get that perfect image.

The moment, captured on video at the 14th Factory exhibition space in Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles shows a woman apparently bending down to try to get the perfect angle for a selfie shot down a row of the Hypercaine exhibition by Hong Kong-based artist Simon Birch and a series of international collaborators.

https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...rks-la-gallery

[Dr. Who]

I don't know, but if the pieces are that easy to knock down, you'd think they would rope them off, so people can't get that close.

[Cthulhu]

The price of vanity.

Sent from my evil cell phone.

[Crepitus]

All those pillars, that close together with people walking between them?

Invitation to disaster. If it wasn't a stunt it was at the least a poorly thought out way of exhibiting the works. It was gonna happen sooner or later no matter what.

[Kalkin]

Who valued the art? The artist?

[Dr. Who]

Who valued the art? The artist?

Probably.

[Adelaide]

So, it was poor planning... but I am still amazed at how I see some people trying to take selfies based on location and what is happening around them.