Friday 26 April 2013

Turner Prize Art Gallery 'Targetted for crap artwork"

From the BBC:

An art gallery hosting paintings by Turner Prize nominees has been vandalised.
Threats were made against the Tate Modern, in London, if it did not remove the artwork, staff have confirmed.
Black paint was smeared over the shop window early on Tuesday morning, Metropolitan Police said.
The artists involved had been accused of being 'crap' by the public.
A police spokeswoman confirmed officers were called to reports of criminal damage at the gallery where it is suspected a man smeared paint on the window with his hands. She added that the gallery were now considering hanging the work as symbolic of the rage caused by incredulity, and will probably flog it to Maurice Saatchi for a few grand.
The force said it did not know the motive behind the vandalism and that millions of possible suspects are being considered.
Gallery staff confirmed it would continue to hang their paintings.

1 comments:

Mark Wadsworth said...

Oh yes, remove the window and sell it, with the title "Do you know what it is yet?"