The girl suffered cranial fractures in a car accident, and X-rays reveal that her skull was reassembled like a shattered vase with a few missing shards.
Still, watching this still-young politician try to repair the shattered vase of his reputation, I am reminded that Americans, for all our reflexive moralizing, can be more than a touch Parisian about our politicians.
The water spilling from the shattered vase below Troilus' horse, symbolises his blood that is about to be shed.
There are lots of ways it could have happened: I could have been pickpocketed, or shattered a vase in an antiques shop, or accidentally dropped a 50-euro bill down a sewer grate.
But there is also the mindless recycling of familiar ideas: china, wallpaper and fabrics printed with various art-historical motifs by Jessica Smith and a seemingly cracked mirror and partly shattered glass vase from the Jason Miller Studio.
When a local artist intentionally shattered a vase, last week, at the Pérez Art Museum Miami's ongoing Ai Weiwei retrospective, most journalists predictably focussed on the price of the destroyed work, which was said to be a million dollars.
Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty When a local artist intentionally shattered a vase, last week, at the Pérez Art Museum Miami's ongoing Ai Weiwei retrospective, most journalists predictably focussed on the price of the destroyed work, which was said to be a million dollars.
By Ben Mauk February 27 , 2014When a local artist intentionally shattered a vase, last week, at the Pérez Art Museum Miami's ongoing Ai Weiwei retrospective, most journalists predictably focussed on the price of the destroyed work, which was said to be a million dollars.
David, after playing baseball in the house and shattering a vase, is made to sit in the corner.
It was hard to tell whether Mr. Cui was listening, but he certainly heard the host announce the judges' verdict: "It's a modern reproduction!" Mr. Cui winced as he swung the mallet, shattering the vase — and with it his dreams of the wealth it might have brought at auction.
"When you put in these rocks, that's going to keep them from shattering your vase," he says.
