91-year-old woman fills out crossword — turns out it was a $116k piece of art
A 91-year-old woman recently did what any 91-year-old woman is wont to do when visiting an art museum in Germany: She came across a crossword puzzle and decided she would fill it out. But what this enterprising woman didn't account for is the fact that the crossword puzzle she'd happened upon was actually a piece of art hanging in the museum. Uh oh.
A work by Danish artist Arthur Koepcke titled "Reading-Work-Pieces nos. 32-32 + 124," which was on loan to the Nueus Museum in Nuremberg, features a small section with a crossword puzzle and a line that reads, "Insert Words Here." The woman rightfully took that as an instructive and broke out a ballpoint pen to fill out the crossword on the piece of art worth $116,000.
The museum filed a criminal complaint for insurance purposes, but fully acknowledged it was a harmless mistake that could be fixed.
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