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Mona Lisa attacked with cake by 'man dressed as old lady in wheelchair'

Video shared online shows the world's most famous artwork with what witnesses suggested was cake smeared across the glass case protecting it.

Bystanders said a "man dressed as an old lady" jumped out of a wheelchair at the Louvre in Paris before attempting to smash the protective glass in front of the Leonardo da Vinci painting.

Separate footage shows the person suspected of being responsible telling bystanders in French: "Think of the planet… there are people who are destroying the planet, think about that … That's why I did it."

https://news.sky.com/story/mona-lis...an-dressed-as-old-lady-in-wheelchair-12624074

Well, obviously.

maximus otter
 
Whait is it with French and their cake? Oy vey.

Man smears Mona Lisa casing with cake before being arrested at The Louvre​

Key points:​

  • The man entered the Louvre in a wheelchair, wearing lipstick and a wig
  • Protective glass meant the Mona Lisa was not damaged
  • Da Vinci's famous painting has been attacked many times over the years
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-30/mona-lisa-attacked-cake-louvre/101111958
 
I'm like 100% sure we have another thread on art attacks, so please merge...
https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/crime/article262093597.html

More than $5 million in art, including ancient Greek pieces, destroyed at Dallas museum

By James Hartley

More than $5 million worth of art, including three ancient Greek pieces, was destroyed at the Dallas Museum of Art after a man broke in Wednesday night, the Dallas Morning News reported. Brian Hernandez, 21, was in custody after police said he broke into the museum around 10 p.m. and was arrested shortly after leaving the scene, KDFW-TV reported. Hernandez was not carrying weapons and nobody was hurt, according to a spokeswoman for the museum. The Dallas Museum of Art was open Thursday, but some exhibits were closed. Hernandez broke into a glass display case and destroyed a 6th-century B.C. Greek ceramic vase and a Greek pot from around 450 B.C., the Dallas Morning News reported. He’s also accused of destroying a $100,000 Greek bowl from between 550 and 530 B.C. and a $10,000 ceramic Caddo effigy bottle modeled after an alligator gar. “This was an isolated incident perpetrated by one individual acting alone, whose intent was not theft of art or any objects on view at the Museum,” the museum said in a statement. “ While we are devastated by this incident, we are grateful that no one was harmed. The safety of our staff and visitors, along with the care and protection of the art in our stewardship, are our utmost priorities.”
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I've seen reference to this crime as having been committed because the perpetrator was mad at his girlfriend...
 
More doofiness:
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/just-stop-oil-hay-wain-london-climate/index.htmlClimate protesters glue themselves to 200-year-old masterpiece

Climate protesters glue themselves to 200-year-old masterpiece​

Two climate activists glued themselves to a 200-year-old masterpiece at London's National Gallery on Monday, the latest in a string of disruptive protests by British environmentalist group Just Stop Oil. The pair covered John Constable's famous landscape painting "The Hay Wain" with a modified version of the image before sticking their hands to its frame.
The demonstration comes just a day after five Just Stop Oil activists disrupted Formula 1's British Grand Prix by sitting on the Silverstone racetrack. Last week also saw members of the group gluing themselves to the frames of paintings in London, Glasgow and Manchester, including Vincent van Gogh's famous "Peach Trees in Blossom."

Completed in 1821, "The Hay Wain" is among Britain's best-known artworks. Depicting the Stour river, which divides the English counties of Suffolk and Essex, it is considered one of Constable's quintessential paintings.
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/art-dealing-with-disaster/index.html
The protesters' modified version saw the river replaced with a paved road, with factory smokestacks depicted in the background and airplanes flying overhead. Just Stop Oil, which is calling for the UK government to block licenses for future oil and gas extraction, has since identified the demonstrators as students Hannah Hunt and Eben Lazarus. London's Metropolitan Police confirmed to CNN that two people had been arrested on suspicion of criminal damage and were later released on bail pending further inquiries.

In a video of Monday's incident, posted to Just Stop Oil's Twitter account, Lazarus, a 22-year-old music student, can be heard telling onlookers that the "reimagined" version of the painting "shows the destructive nature of our addiction to oil." "I want to work in the arts, not disrupt them," he is heard saying. "But the situation we're in means we have to do everything non-violently possible to prevent the civilizational collapse that we are hurtling towards."
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/c...cy-photography-action-spc-intl-c2e/index.html
The National Gallery said the painting had been removed from view following the incident and has since been examined by conservators.
"'The Hay Wain' suffered minor damage to its frame and there was also some disruption to the surface of the varnish on the painting -- both of which have now been successfully dealt with," the gallery told CNN in a statement, adding that the painting will be back on display from Tuesday morning.

Founded in early 2022, Just Stop Oil has embarked on several high-profile protests in recent months. In March, a Premier League soccer match was halted when a demonstrator tied himself to one of the goal posts. Last month, four of the group's supporters covered the exterior wall and steps of the UK government's Treasury headquarters with red paint. In a press release issued by the group on Monday, 23-year-old Hunt said the protests would only end when "the UK government makes a meaningful statement that it will end new oil and gas licenses."
"Ultimately, new fossil fuels are a death project by our government," the psychology student is quoted as saying. "So yes there is glue on the frame of this painting but there is blood on the hands of our government."
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More of these morons. Vid at link.

Climate protesters dragged away after attempting glue stunt with Botticelli masterpiece​

Climate protesters were dragged away after attempting to glue their hands to Botticelli's Primavera masterpiece. The activists had one hand pressed onto the painting when they were tackled by staff at the Uffizi Gallery in Italy. A protective layer of glass prevented any damage being done to the artwork.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-62282858
 
Speaking as someone who has done a bit of picture restoration and frame restoration in the past, this raises my anger levels.
They should be pursued relentlessly for any damage they do.
 
http://www.cnn.com/travel/article/vatican-museum-tourist-smashes-statues/index.html

American tourist smashes two sculptures in the Vatican​

Julia Buckley, CNN • Updated 6th October 2022


(CNN) — Just when you thought the summer of tourists behaving badly was over, another person on vacation wrecks another priceless artifact.
This time it's the turn of an American tourist who smashed no fewer than two ancient Roman sculptures into pieces at the Vatican on Wednesday.
The episode took place in the Museo Chiaramonti, part of the Vatican Museums, around lunchtime. The space holds around 1,000 works of ancient statuary, and describes itself as "one of the finest collections of Roman portraits" in the world.

Two of those portraits are now facing an uncertain future after the tourist knocked over one in anger, then toppled another as he fled the scene.
The man had demanded to see the pope, according to newspaper Il Messaggero. When he was told he couldn't, he allegedly hurled one Roman bust to the floor.
As he ran off, with staff in pursuit, he knocked down another.

The two works of art have been taken to the inhouse workshop to be assessed. While around 2,000 years old, they are thought to be secondary works of art, rather than famous works, a source told Il Messaggero.
Director of the Press Office for Vatican Museums Matteo Alessandrini told CNN that the American man, around 50 years old, was in the "Galleria Chiaramonte" corridor, which houses around 100 busts and statues.
"The busts were affixed to shelves with a nail but if you pull them down with force they will come off," he said. "He pulled down one and then the other and the guards came immediately and stopped him and consigned him to the Vatican police who brought him in for questioning. Around 5:30 p.m. he was handed over to the Italian authorities.
"The 2 busts have been damaged but not particularly badly. One lost part of a nose and an ear, the head of the other came off the pedestal."
He said that restoration work had already begun, and that "they will soon be restored and back at the Museum."
Mountain Butorac, who leads pilgrimages to the Vatican and who often visits the Museo Chiaramonti, said: "One of the beautiful things is that it allows the visitors to get literally face to face with these ancient sculptures. My fear is that with behavior like this, barriers could be put in place."
Tourists damaging monuments has been a theme of this summer in Rome. In July, a Canadian tourist was caught carving her name into the Colosseum, while American tourists were caught hurling scooters down the Spanish Steps, breaking off pieces in the process, and a Saudi visitor drove his Maserati down the same architectural icon.
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Oil protesters throw soup on Van Gogh's Sunflowers painting​

Climate activists have thrown tins of what appears to be tomato soup over a Van Gogh painting of sunflowers at the National Gallery in London.
Footage showed two people in Just Stop Oil T-shirts opening tins and throwing the contents on the masterpiece before gluing their hands to the wall.
The Metropolitan Police said two people had been arrested.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-63254878
 
It's covered in glass.
But make 'em pay to clean the glass.
I'm surprised they didn't combine their protest with the artistry and unironically throw sunflower oil over it instead, TBH.
 
She also referenced the cost of living crisis and "millions of cold, hungry families" who "can't even afford to heat a tin of soup".

Isn't that exaggerating somewhat?
 
Depends how big the tin of soup is really.

Anyways, this 'Just Stop Oil' bunch are a bunch of out-of-work Islington luvvies and people of a certain persuasion who have got nothing better to do than go around ruining peoples days while pontificating about something that doesn't affect them, just to get attention.
I doubt whether any of them have any problems getting mummy to warm through a bowl of Waitrose lentil, pumpkin and cardamom broth for their dinner "Oh please mummy, can I have a slice of sourdough bread too, with some non-dairy soft spread on it?".

You don't see them attempting to glue themselves to the road outside a maccyD drive-thru in (eg) Thornton Heath do you?
No of course you don't, cos they'd get dragged off the road and given a knuckle-sandwich instead of a veggie-burger, and consider themselves lucky to not be shanked as well.
Idiots.
 
If it's just tomato soup, even if the picture wasn't behind glass, it would probably be relatively simple to clean it.
 
Trevp666 said:
Depends how big the tin of soup is really.

Anyways, this 'Just Stop Oil' bunch are a bunch of out-of-work Islington luvvies and people of a certain persuasion who have got nothing better to do than go around ruining peoples days while pontificating about something that doesn't affect them, just to get attention.
I doubt whether any of them have any problems getting mummy to warm through a bowl of Waitrose lentil, pumpkin and cardamom broth for their dinner "Oh please mummy, can I have a slice of sourdough bread too, with some non-dairy soft spread on it?".

You don't see them attempting to glue themselves to the road outside a maccyD drive-thru in (eg) Thornton Heath do you?
No of course you don't, cos they'd get dragged off the road and given a knuckle-sandwich instead of a veggie-burger, and consider themselves lucky to not be shanked as well.
Idiots.
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Did I read somewhere on here the other day, that in France the authorities just pull them away when they've glued themselves to something?
 
I think here in the UK these people get off very lightly indeed.
I've seen videos from other countries where they try this sort of thing and it all goes very badly for them.
 
I could have understood chucking soup over an Andy Warhol.

Are the synthetic polymers in superglue made from petroleum products?
 
Tunn11 said:
Are the synthetic polymers in superglue made from petroleum products?
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If it wasn't for pumping oil out of the ground none of it would exist - the glue, the container, the box it came in, the truck that delivered it etc etc etc.
Anyhoo, AFAIK 'superglue' is a cyano-acrylate compound which is a complex hydrocarbon. So that in itself relies on a product of oil.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanoacrylate
 
ramonmercado said:
Think about those activists who are murdered in Latin America as they defend their homes and lands against loggers, oil companies, farmers. I don't think you really disrespect them.
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Well, OK. I didn't mean them, obviously.
 
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