breakfast cereal: Pandora Mather-Lees, an Oxford-educated art historian and conservationist, started giving lessons after a billionaire asked for help to restore a Jean-Michel Basquiat painting damaged not by sea spray, but by breakfast cereal, according to The Guardian. His kids had thrown their cornflakes at it over breakfast on his yacht because they thought it was scary, Mather-Lees said. But the world's ultra-rich are filling superyachts with so many masterpieces that conservationists are teaching captains and crew how to care for art as well as to pamper passengers. And the crew had made the damage worse by wiping them off the painting. The crew just thought it was some painting, they had no idea it was worth many millions, Mather-Lees told the Observer at a superyacht conference in London last week. She declined to name the owner or identify the artwork, but a Basquiat painting depicting a crazed, skull-shaped face sold at auction for a US record 110.5m 84.5m in 2017.
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