A Good Story to Retell

In the midst of sometimes “not so good” news, I tend to search for a story that just makes me smile. Here's one of my favorites. Hope you like it too..

NEW YORK — Dennis Hopper, the "Easy Rider" star, put two bullets through Warhol's 1972 screen print portrait of Mao Zedong, which he owned. In 2011, the portrait sold at Christie's for $302,500, more than 10 times its estimate, in some part due to the unique bullet holes.

The auction house reported that Hopper got spooked and "mistook the portrait on his wall for Mao himself and shot at it." Warhol considered the bullets holes part of a collaboration drawing circles around the holes, labeling one "warning shot" and the other other "bullet hole".

Credit: The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.