PARIS, Sept. 8, 2006—Human error led to the shattering of a fragile artwork on loan from the United States, while the reason for the loss of another piece was unknown, Paris' Pompidou Center said yesterday.
(full article here.)
Geez, this is so like the French, isn’t it? Borrowing things and then not even having the decency to hang them properly. Oh, sure, France, it was an accident. You’re so sorry, standing their in your snide couture and your cute little beret. Just a guess, but I’ll bet the discovery of the accident went something like this:
Curator #1: Sacrebleu! Zee art-worhk, she eez broken!
Curator #2: Mon dieu! How will we tell zee United States?
Curator #1: I have zee pehr-fect idea! We will send zem a box of cheese-buhr-gers to distract them from ze tragedy.
Curator #2: Ooh la la! It is ze best idea! And zen we willl blame ze whole incident on ghosts!
Curator #1: Stupid Americans! Ha! Ha! Jean-Luc Picard, you are ze smartest man in ze world.
Curator #2: Merci, Jaques Cousteau.
Curator #1: Boeuf.
Curator #2: Oui.
You think I’m kidding about the ghosts thing.
Well, yeah, I kind of am. But I’m also kind of… not.
Four visitors and a museum guard testified that no one touched the work before it fell, the Paris museum said.
''Despite a close and thorough investigation, the cause of the incident cannot be unequivocally determined,'' Racine said.
Sound familiar? Have you seen “Poltergeist”?, complete with the final hands-in-the-air, “Beats me!” conclusion drawn by the museum director. All we need is for Tangina Barrons to show up at the Pompidou Center, waving her hands in the air, claiming that the whole structure was built on an ancient Indian burial ground and that Jacques Chirac is a clairvoyant savant.
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