The recent lacklustre spray-paint job on a Jeff Koons is nothing new in art ... rubbish vandals possess always been with us
• Jeff Koons retrospective targeted by vandalThe man who attacked a Jeff Koons exhibition with spray paint joins a long line of pointless art vandals. Why bother to attack art when your gesture will possess none of the eloquence of art itself?I know what someone out there is saying – eloquent (expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively)? Jeff Koons? And that would appear to be the spraypainter’s point of view. Art criticism with a spray can. substantial museums place on retrospectives of an artist like Koons – it’s disgusting. Grrr. Vandalism’s what this kind of art deserves.
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Source: theguardian.com