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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: Colorado cops target artist who stacks stones, Chinese authorities not pleased about Forbidden City nude photo shoot, and murder weapon turns up in London museum.
Vandalism
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Selfie Snappers Smash Baroque Sculpture in Herculean Feat of Stupidity
On Friday two tourists visiting the northern Italian city of Cremona broke part of an 18th-century sculpture they were climbing to take a selfie.
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Artist in Trouble for Tagging Joshua Tree National Park
A tag painted by the Swedish-Portuguese street artist and nightclub owner André Saraiva on a rock in Joshua Tree National Park has sparked an investigation after he posted a photo of it on Instagram on February 25.
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Smashed Conceptual Art Water Fountain Will Flow Again
Michael Asher's understated drinking fountain sculpture on the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) campus was recently destroyed by a masked vandal, but officials at the school plan to rebuild it.
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Vandal Destroys Conceptual Art Water Fountain
The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) recently lost one of its campus’s most subtle and unusual piece of public art.
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How to Fix a Monet After Somebody Punches It
Conservators are probably the closest thing the art world has to surgeons.
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How to Punch a Monet and Get Away with It
Punching a painting by Claude Monet is never a good idea, as Andrew Shannon learned the hard way last week when he was sentenced to five years in prison for putting his fist through "Argenteuil Basin with a Single Sailboat" (1874) at the National Gallery of Ireland. But if it's a digital likeness of
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When in Rome, Refrain from Carving Your Initials into Ancient Buildings
A 42-year-old Russian tourist visiting Rome was arrested and fined €20,000 (~$25,000) for carving a "K" nearly 10 inches tall into a wall inside the Colosseum, the first century CE amphitheater.
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Hiker's Poor Paintings on National Parkland Pique Feds
A hiker who has been painting portraits on cliffs, rocks, and slopes at national parks in the western United States and posting images of the acrylic compositions on social media is now the subject of a National Park Service (NPS) investigation.
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Another Vandal Hits Jeff Koons Retrospective
Last night, a graffiti writer identified by the New York Times as Christopher Johnson, 33, of Manhattan, vandalized a fourth floor wall of the Jeff Koons retrospective at the Whitney Museum of Art.
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NYC Photo Exhibition Vandalized, Curator Attacked
Three individuals were involved in an attack on an exhibition in Chelsea this morning in which photographs were defaced, neo-Nazi leaflets dispersed, and a curator assaulted with pepper spray, Hyperallergic has learned.
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Man Vandalizes Jeff Koons Retrospective [UPDATED]
A man briefly disrupted the Jeff Koons retrospective at the Whitney Museum this afternoon, splashing red paint against a wall and signing his name.