Overzealous cleaner ruins £690,000 artwork that she thought was dirty

laserenissima:

She scoured off a layer of paint in a sculpture by late German artist Martin Kippenberger on loan to a museum in Dortmund

At first I was all, “oh no!”, but then I saw the actual artwork, and read the description of it, and laughed my ass off.

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Source: laserenissima