Picasso vandalised
June 20 2012
Video: ITN
I can't physically type any comment on this that doesn't involve swearing. So compose your own indignation. The picture, Woman in a Red Armchair, is part of the Menil Collection in Houston. More details here.
Questions. Is the internet age making such attacks more likely? Does the ease with which a vandal can generate worldwide publicity mean we have to look again at the whole question of museum security? Should, or rather, could news outlets (and sites like this) therefore not report such attacks?
Update - a reader writes:
I'm not sure that unreporting vandalism is possible, ethically or practically, but nothing the youtube generation has done to art has so far matched the hammer attack on Michelangelo's Pieta or the shotgunning of The Madonna of the Rocks.
Maybe a return to the pillory is the answer?
