Colorado woman punches, rubs her buttocks against $30 million painting
DENVER — A 36-year-old woman was charged Wednesday after punching, scratching and sliding her buttocks against a painting worth more than $30 million, authorities in Colorado said.
Carmen Tisch is accused of pulling her pants down to rub up against the work, an oil-on-canvas called "1957-J no.2", by the late abstract expressionist artist Clyfford Still.
Tisch allegedly caused $10,000 worth of damage to the painting.
Tisch was charged with felony criminal mischief on Wednesday and has been held on a $20,000 bond since the incident in late December, said Lynn Kimbrough, spokeswoman for the Denver District Attorney's Office.
Citing the police report, the Denver Post reported that the suspect was apparently drunk at the time.
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My 5yo nephew could paint that.
(by anyone) but only a matter of what WAS done, at that time and place.
No works painted in this style in the future will have such a high value. It is all about the fact that in previous centuries, nobody had ever done this (or if they did it was not appreciated). The value, which I would agree is inflated, is linked to the estimate of the artist's contribution to the history of art. This is why dealers can elevate the price beyond belief--because there will be no more mid-20th century modernist abstractions. It was a time that opened up the whole genre of abstract art, which we now take for granted (and apply to all forms of art, including graphic design and computer & information imagery). It's the value of the contribution.
End of art lesson. 
