Museum volunteer ruins artwork by 'cleaning' display with toilet paper

Museum volunteer ruins artwork by 'cleaning' display with toilet paper

A well-intentioned volunteer at an art museum has inadvertently ruined a contemporary artwork after mistaking it for a grimy mirror in need of cleaning. The avant-garde work was robbed of its apparent meaning after the worker used toilet paper to wipe away what appeared to be dirt from a reflective surface.The artwork had accumulated four decades of dust as an integral element of its artistic composition, which was largely removed during the imp…