Heh: Someone Vandalizes Andre Serrano's Notorious "Piss Christ"

Maybe the slashing of the photo was an attempt at post-modern meta-reflexive guerilla-style outsider art.

But on Palm Sunday morning, four people in sunglasses aged between 18 and 25 entered the exhibition just after it opened at 11am. One took a hammer out of his sock and threatened the guards with it. A guard grabbed another man around the waist but within seconds the group managed to take a hammer to the plexiglass screen and slash the photograph with another sharp object, thought to be a screwdriver or ice-pick. They also smashed another work, which showed the hands of a meditating nun.

The gallery director, Eric Mézil, said it would reopen with the destroyed works on show "so people can see what barbarians can do". He said there had been a kind of "inquisition" against the art work.

Instapundit's got a schadenboner. If the rule of the left is that an aggrieved group's egregious aggrievement grants a license to kill or destroy -- well, you made the rule. Live with the consequences.

posted by Ace at 10:58 AM

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