VANDALS SPRAY PAINT ANISH KAPOOR’S SCULPTURE IN VERSAILLES
Vandals have spray-painted Dirty Corner, the provocative sculpture installed by British-Indian sculptor Anish Kapoor in Versailles, reports the International Business Times’s Joe Millis. The damage was discovered yesterday, and the work is now being cleaned.
Local Socialist party authorities condemned the act of vandalism, stating that it was “unacceptable that art, the compass of freedom, suffer because of the obscurantism of some people.”
The work has raised eyebrows for representing “the vagina of the queen coming into power,” in Kapoor’s words; the piece had even prompted Versailles’s mayor to say the artist had “slipped up,” as Artforum.com reported here.
