Art Crimes & Misdemeanors
By Megan • Nov 6th, 2007 • Category: News for Creatives (archives)“On the morning that a woman is standing trial in Avignon, France for planting “a lipstick-red kiss on the pure white canvas of a two-million-euro artwork by US artist Cy Twombly,” acts of vandalism seem to be upstaging works of art. On Sunday, four masked men “vandalized a Swedish photo exhibit of work by the controversial US photographer Andres Serrano, using an ax on some of his images.” Also on Sunday, intruders entered the Orsay Museum in Paris “and punched a hole in a renowned work by Impressionist painter Claude Monet.” All this stirred memories of the recent theft in Argentina of Francis Ford Coppola’s computer with the screenplay for his upcoming feature film Tetro. But this is mere child’s play compared to the weirdness of Pierre Pinoncelli (pictured here), the “conceptual artist as vandal” who has not only urinated on the work of Marcel Duchamp, but resorted to self-mutilation (well, his pinky) in a half-baked attempt to stage a political protest.”
Megan is a creative producer at Wise Elephant.
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