Entry Posted October 22, 2006

http://www.slate.com/id/2151857/ Wow, art conservators take their jobs really seriously: to fixing Steve Wynn’s ripped Picasso they’s (may) attempt to match up individual fibres. Also, I quite liked Wynn’s reaction, as reported by Nora Ephron (1, 2, 3) and The New Yorker (4): (1) Oh shit; (2) Thank God it was me; (3) This has nothing to do with money. The money means nothing to me. It’s that I had this painting in my care and I’ve damaged it.; (4) (some time later) It’s a picture, it’s my picture, we’ll fix it. Nobody got sick or died. It’s a picture. It took Picasso five hours to paint it. 11:09