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Vandal Punches Hole in a Monet in Paris

Some drunken Annihilomancer gets his rocks off.

>http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/10/08/arts/08monet.php

“Intruders broke into the Musée d’Orsay early Sunday and one of them damaged a work by the Impressionist painter Claude Monet, the latest in a series of acts of vandalism and thefts at cultural sites in France.”

Another cool bit in this article…

In February, a court upheld a suspended prison term for a self-proclaimed performance artist who attacked with a hammer the surrealist work from 1917 called “Fountain” — a urinal by Marcel Duchamp — at the Pompidou Center in Paris early last year.

… looks like the beginnings of an open war between arts.

One thought on “Vandal Punches Hole in a Monet in Paris

  1. stange_person says:

    That lady who kissed the blank canvas…

    Couldn’t they just, y’know, get a new one? It’s gotta be symbolic.

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