Battered Art

 

Flavorwire’s Paul Laster takes a tour of the top ten works of art damaged by the crazed and attention-seeking:

The museums and art centers that display the works are public domains, in which anything is likely to happen. Throw a bunch of publicity loving crackpots, wannabe performance artists, youthful vandals, social protesters, and accident-prone eccentrics into the mix and you enter the damage zone, where art gets hurt — or at the very least, publicly humiliated.

Damaged Goods: The 10 Best Abused Artworks Ever (Flavorwire)