JUNE 10 "WATCH WHAT YOU THROW AWAY"
A cleaning woman at an Italian gallery accidentally threw away thousands of dollars of art by New York modernist Paul Branca when she mistook his crumpled newspaper, cardboard, and cookie installation scattered across the floor for garden-variety trash. The pieces, estimated to be worth around $15,000, were apparently intended to make viewers think of the environment. "We are obviously very sorry for what happened," city marketing Commissioner Antonio Maria Vasile said. The gallery says they do not blame the cleaning woman , who "did not realize she had thrown away two works and their value she simply did not realize the value of what was in front of her. This woman is not the only one to have thrown away something of great value, “for what will a man give or sell, in exchange for his soul” [