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February 19, 2014 Marina Galperina

Cubist painter Maximo Caminero was charged with criminal mischief after destroying an artwork by contemporary Chinese artist and dissident activist Ai Weiwei at the Pérez Art Museum Miami on Sunday. According to his arrest report, the 51-year-old artist picked up one of the Colored Vases on display at Ai Weiwei’s “According to What?” exhibit and after a security guard told him to […]

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February 8, 2013 Eugene Reznik

Last night just before closing time at the Lens branch of the Louvre Museum, a 28-year-old woman with a “French-sounding name” transformed defaced Eugene Delacroix’s epic 1830 painting Liberty Leading The People. Either an ardent supporter of King Charles X of France, or more likely a 9/11 Truther, the woman scralled “AE911,” shorthand for “Architects […]

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