Vandalism

The climate activist who smeared paint near a famous Edgar Degas sculpture has been found guilty of ‘crime against the United States”. On April 27, 2023, Timothy Martin (age 55) and Johanna Smith entered the National Gallery of Art in…

A sculpture by Art Weiwei was intentionally broken by a man during the opening of his new exhibition in Italy. The incident occurred on Friday evening during the select opening ceremony of the exhibition “Who Am I?”, a survey on Art…

Six billboards from the series ‘Wish You Were Gay’ by Anne Imhof were partially torn by vandals in Austria. The billboards were displayed in the city of Bregenz and served as companion pieces to an ongoing museum at the Kunsthaus…

In two separate incidents, activists attacked statues of Queen Victoria in Glasgow, Scotland, to protest against rising living costs. The first incident occurred at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum on March 3rd. The protestors…

On Sunday, two protestors threw soup at the Mona Lisa – the latest in a series of attacks on the famous painting. The two female protestors entered the museum on Sunday morning, though it remains unclear how they managed to sneak in soup…

A man was charged with hate crime on Monday after he had vandalized Seattle’s Wing Luke Museum with a sledgehammer last week. The accused is Craig Milne, a 76-year-old man. On Thursday, September 14, Milne traveled to Seattle’s Chinatown…

A pair of climate activists defaced a portrait of King Charles III at the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh. On Wednesday, the two climate activists, later identified to be part of the group This Is Rigged, entered the gallery.…

A Florida man was arrested and has admitted to crashing into the 13-foot sculpture Thunderbunny by Hunt Slonem earlier this week. Identified as Derek Alan Mordok, the accused is a 49-year-old resident of Florida. Earlier this week, he…

A 10-foot sculpture of a seated woman by artist Tschabalala Self was vandalized with white spray paint last week. The vandalism act occurred on May 15, when some unknown perpetrators entered the park and spraypainted the statue, which is…

The infamous duct tape-banana sculpture by Maurizio Cattelan is again in the news, this time as a South Korean student ate it. The incident occurred on Thursday, though the news was first reported only on Sunday. It happened at the Leeum…