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Boy Punches Hole in $1.5M Painting

WHOOPS

He tripped.

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A 12-year-old boy tripped in a Taiwanese art museum Tuesday and accidentally punched a hole in a painting worth $1.5 million. The painting, "Flowers" by Italian artist Paolo Porpora, is more than 300 years old. The curator of the exhibition asked that the boy not be punished for the incident and a restoration specialist is already planning to help fix it.

Read it at Focus Taiwan