Woman Fined for Kissing Cy Twombly

The BBC reported today that Cambodian-born Rindy Sam has been ordered to pay 1,500 euros in damages to the owner of the painting by a French judge. She must also pay a symbolic one euro to Twombly, as well as the gallery owner 500 euros.

“I just gave it a kiss. It was an act of love, when I kissed it, I wasn’t thinking. I thought the artist would understand,” she said.

Apparantly the fines for French kissing a painting are larger, and life-sentences are in order for sleeping with a painting, noted a renowned French art critic. However, flings with sculptures are not covered by French law.