She but doth protest too much, methinks

[3rdgensooner]

Gauguin Attacker Angered By "Very Homosexual" Art (http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/bizarre/gauguin-attacker-angered-very-homosexual-art-453091)

Suspect said she was "CIA" with "a radio in my head"

APRIL 4--The woman who allegedly tried to tear a Gauguin painting off a wall at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. has been identified as a 53-year-old convicted felon who, after her arrest Friday, told an investigator that the French artist was “evil” and that his artwork “has nudity and is bad for the children.”

Suspect Susan Burns, who turned 53 Friday, also said that the Gauguin painting “Two Tahitian Women,” which is pictured at right and valued at $80 million, is “very homosexual. I was trying to remove it. I think it should be burned,” according to a criminal complaint filed in D.C. Superior Court. “I am from the American CIA and I have a radio in my head. I am going to kill you,” added Burns, who lives in Alexandria, Virginia.

On Friday afternoon, Burns allegedly walked over to the Gauguin painting in Gallery 214-C and “grabbed the frame holding said painting on its left side and attempted to pull it off the wall.” Burns, the misdemeanor complaint charges (http://www.thesmokinggun.com/file/gauguin-attacked?page=0), then “struck the middle of the painting with her right fist.” However, since the painting was “protected by a transparent acrylic shield on the front,” no damage was observed.

A further analysis today of the painting revealed no damage to it, according to Deborah Ziska, a National Gallery of Art spokesperson. The complaint reveals that the “entire sequence of events was also recorded on videotape.”

Burns, who pleaded not guilty Saturday to a pair of misdemeanor counts (http://www.thesmokinggun.com/file/gauguin-attacked?page=1) related to the attempted Gauguin assault, appears to have a lengthy rap sheet that includes convictions for carjacking, disorderly conduct, trespassing, and assault on a law enforcement officer.

[SouthCarolinaSooner]

Nudity bad, shooting okay

[3rdgensooner]

I think it makes her tingly.

[Leroy Lizard]

Forget all the moral lessons on hypocrisy and the whole pornography issue -- this woman is mentally ill.

[Viking Kitten]

Ummm...yeah.

“I am from the American CIA and I have a radio in my head. I am going to kill you.”

That's pretty much classic paranoid schizophrenia right there.

[NormanPride]

Quality person, there.

[sooner_born_1960]

Or, she really has a radio in her head.

[Mississippi Sooner]

While it can be annoying the way the guards follow you from room to room in an art gallery, this lady is proof that it's necessary.

[Pogue Mahone]

If there weren't thousands of other CIA types and other assorted kooks in Arlington, Va., she'd be special. :rolleyes:

[olevetonahill]

Id hit it :hot:

[C&CDean]

I saw tons of crazy bitches like this on my daily constitutionals up there. People be crazy man. In reality, if you waste your time in DC going into one of the art museums you've got to be nuts anyhow. I just don't get it. No offense to Picasso or PG our resident arteests, but most of that **** up there ain't art to me. I walked through the sculpture garden a lot on my way over by the Archives, and some of that crap is just crap. A giant rubber-wheel eraser? A chrome tree? C'mon man.

If I wanna see real art, I go into the Air & Space Museum or the Library of Congress, or look at the Capitol (especially from the front side - which is the opposite side that everybody comes up to) or just walk the streets and look at all the groovy architecture and massive buildings. The memorials, etc. That's art. A pile of bronze matches called "Espresso Munchako" don't do a damn thing for me.

[picasso]

Gaugin moved to Tahiti to paint nude womens and such. God bless him.

[2121Sooner]

Which is why you say the artists name as gow-gwin instead of how it is correctly said.

But if you would have bronzed one of your constitutionals and then put it on a sculpture of Jesus like a hat, you could have called it art and got it displayed and called a genius

[Wishboned]

Everybody's a critic.

[StoopTroup]

I saw tons of crazy bitches like this on my daily constitutionals up there. People be crazy man. In reality, if you waste your time in DC going into one of the art museums you've got to be nuts anyhow. I just don't get it. No offense to Picasso or PG our resident arteests, but most of that **** up there ain't art to me. I walked through the sculpture garden a lot on my way over by the Archives, and some of that crap is just crap. A giant rubber-wheel eraser? A chrome tree? C'mon man.

If I wanna see real art, I go into the Air & Space Museum or the Library of Congress, or look at the Capitol (especially from the front side - which is the opposite side that everybody comes up to) or just walk the streets and look at all the groovy architecture and massive buildings. The memorials, etc. That's art. A pile of bronze matches called "Espresso Munchako" don't do a damn thing for me.

It is amazing to see the Mall and the Memorials and Archives and Smithsonian with your own eyes. You are right too. I did walk around Congress when I was there and I went inside. Congress wasn't in session of course :rolleyes: so I was able to see a lot.

The Air and Space Museum was my first stop. The moon Rock was right in the front lobby then right after you went through the scanners and the search. I had to cut my visit there short a bit in order to see everything else I wanted to experience. All I had was one full day that time. I have wanted to go back every since. It's cool you take advantage of it while you are there.

[3rdgensooner]

I wonder if she ever got pepper sprayed as a kid.

[KuppiKunta]

Everybody's a critic.


It's a dog eat dog world in the art biz!!

[SoonerNate]

Id hit it :hot:

"You must spread rep...."

Damn.

[rekamrettuB]

Burns, the misdemeanor complaint charges, then “struck the middle of the painting with her right fist.” However, since the painting was “protected by a transparent acrylic shield on the front,” no damage was observed.



FAIL!

[Leroy Lizard]

Id hit it :hot:

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[MR2-Sooner86]

I saw tons of crazy bitches like this on my daily constitutionals up there. People be crazy man. In reality, if you waste your time in DC going into one of the art museums you've got to be nuts anyhow. I just don't get it. No offense to Picasso or PG our resident arteests, but most of that **** up there ain't art to me. I walked through the sculpture garden a lot on my way over by the Archives, and some of that crap is just crap. A giant rubber-wheel eraser? A chrome tree? C'mon man.

If I wanna see real art, I go into the Air & Space Museum or the Library of Congress, or look at the Capitol (especially from the front side - which is the opposite side that everybody comes up to) or just walk the streets and look at all the groovy architecture and massive buildings. The memorials, etc. That's art. A pile of bronze matches called "Espresso Munchako" don't do a damn thing for me.

It's really in the eye of the beholder. I know some people who love Impressionism, Romanticism, and Cubism. Personally I'd rather watch grass grow.

However I do love Surrealism, Pop Art, Dada, and Futurism.

I'll agree Postmodern Art today hasn't done much. I'd argue Andy Warhol was probably one of the last great "artist" of our time. He was certainly right in what he was saying and saw the writing on the wall.

[Leroy Lizard]

It's really in the eye of the beholder. I know some people who love Impressionism, Romanticism, and Cubism. Personally I'd rather watch grass grow.

However I do love Surrealism, Pop Art, Dada, and Futurism.

I'll agree Postmodern Art today hasn't done much. I'd argue Andy Warhol was probably one of the last great "artist" of our time. He was certainly right in what he was saying and saw the writing on the wall.

I had the chance to buy a Mark Kostabi original. (Well, if it hadn't cost more than both of my cars combined.)

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