A slasher of a different kind
You know, it occurs to me that if you think a painting might be a forgery, there are better ways of protesting it than trying to cut the painting up.
Police said a 35-year-old woman, from Munich, in Germany, pulled a knife from her bag and slashed it [Roy Lichtenstein’s “Nudes in Mirror ”] four times on Saturday afternoon.
She was stopped by visitors and staff at the Kunsthaus Bregenz museum.
Mr Sagmeister, who organised the exhibition called Roy Lichtenstein: Classic of the New, said the painting could be restored.
I don’t know if I should be reassured or not that my first instinct on reading the story was to breathe a sigh of relief that at least the slashing was motivated over a question of the painting’s being a forgery, and not over its being a nude.