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The Beltracchi Forgery Ring
Rather than copy existing paintings, Wolfgang Beltracchi invented new 'lost' works by twentieth-century masters and gave them a fake history. A single anachronistic pigment brought the whole edifice down.
Institute of Illegal Images
Housed in Mark McCloud's Victorian home in San Francisco's Mission District, the Institute of Illegal Images holds the world's largest collection of LSD blotter art — over 33,000 sheets and hundreds of framed pieces. Named for the era when merely possessing the perforated paper could be treated as evidence of a crime, it reframes a psychedelic-era ephemeral form as serious American folk art, and survived two federal prosecutions of its founder. It is open to the public free of charge.
Serial Vandal Meets the Renaissance
In April 1988 a serial vandal Hans-Joachim Bolhmann hurled sulfuric acid at Albrecht Dürer's 'Mater Dolorosa', a central panel of the Seven Sorrows Polyptych, permanently damaging parts of the 500-year-old work.
Two Thousand Years, One Bad Afternoon
A man climbed the barriers and jumped nearly six metres into an excavation pit at Xi'an, pushing and pulling the ancient clay soldiers and damaging at least two before guards subdued him.
The Mona Lisa Eats Soup
Two activists from Riposte Alimentaire hurled pumpkin soup at the Mona Lisa's protective glass, demanding a 'healthy and sustainable food system'. The bulletproof glazing shrugged it off.
She Kiss the Art and She Liked it
Artist Rindy Sam kissed Cy Twombly's near-white 'Phaedrus', leaving a lipstick mark that required conservation. She called it an act of love; the court called it damage.
Glue, Soup, and Vermeer
One activist glued his head to the protective glass of Vermeer's 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' while another poured tomato soup over him.