Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa may be one of the most beloved artworks in the world. Seen by millions of people each year, it is considered to be the crown jewel of the Louvre’s collection, an iconic work of the Renaissance, and a painting that is impossible to value because it is seen as being priceless. It has also been the target of theft ...
A 20th-century copy of an ancient sculpture of Laocoön in San Francisco has been vandalized. Housed outside the Legion of Honor, the marble sculpture is currently missing some of its figures’ heads, according to ABC7, which first reported the news last Friday. The original Laocoön and His Sons, owned by the Vatican Museum, features a Trojan priest and his sons ensnared by sea serpents ...
click to enlarge PHOTO BY DAVID ANDREATTA A mural painted by Belgian artist ROA, painted in 2012 for the inaugural Wall/Therapy festival, has been defaced by an unknown vandal. When it was installed in 2012, Belgian artist ROA’s mural of two sleeping bears was informally dubbed the "69-ing ...
A conspiracy theorist filmmaker was arrested last week for vandalizing the New York gallery representing U.S. president Joe Biden’s 51-year-old son, Hunter Biden. The vandal, Rod Webber, entered Georges Berges Gallery on Friday afternoon with a can of pink spray paint in hand. (Webber later claimed on Twitter that it was a bottle of washable hair spray.) He scrawled the word “daddy” on a wall ...
A man accused of vandalizing Hunter Biden's art gallery and attacking an employee has been arrested, police say.Rodrick Webber, 47, was detained at approximately 3:40 p.m. Friday at the George Burgess Art Gallery in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City after he defaced artwork inside the gallery, representatives for the New York Police Department said in an email to the Washington Examiner.Webber allegedly ...
TULSA, Okla. — Vandalism at an outdoor art exhibit that commemorates the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre is not deterring the artist who created it.The Greenwood Art Project (GAP) installed Sarah Ahmaud’s project, “The American Dream” along the walking trail at Oxley Nature Center only to recently discover it had become destroyed.GAP director Jerica Wortham says the hand sewn flowers that took hours to make ...
A recently created mural by Banksy has been tagged with a reference to a rival street artist. According to a report by the National, Banksy’s painting atop the wall of a former prison in Reading, England, which the artist made earlier this month, has been tagged with the words “Team Robbo” in an apparent nod to the late graffiti artist King Robbo. Banksy’s mural ...
Police are investigating after several pieces of public art were destroyed in downtown Vancouver. The interactive, open-air exhibits at Hastings and Hornby streets were part of the Vancouver Mural Festival and were discovered smashed on Friday morning. Photos posted online show the installations tipped over with the walls smashed. The art pieces included augmented reality and were part of an effort to create safe experiences in public spaces ...
Weeks after its discovery, a startling case of vandalism at Berlin’s most popular museums remains without an explanation or a suspect. On Tuesday night, German authorities released details confirming local media reports that more than 70 artworks and artifacts on Berlin’s Museum Island—which includes the Pergamon Museum, the Neues Museum, and the Alte Nationalgalerie—had been sprayed with an oily substance. Per the outlet Deutsche ...
FREMONT — An art installation honoring Black lives at a Fremont church was vandalized over the holiday weekend, according to the church’s pastor. The “Pray Their Names” installation at Niles Discovery Church in Fremont, conceived by Rev. Katie Morrison of Sonoma, features around 160 red hearts affixed to wooden posts, with names of Black people who have been killed in incidents of racial violence ...
