Two interesting articles. The first on a gallery in Houston which has awarded a solo show to an "artist" who defaced a Picasso painting, outraging the local art community and blowing up the web...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/houston-art-gallerys-show-of-works-by-fugitive-accused-of-vandalizing-picasso-incites-anger/2012/10/25/a373a7fc-1ee2-11e2-8817-41b9a7aaabc7_story.html
And the second on how we should deal with vandals like the one mentioned above and the recent Rothko defacing "Yellowist."
http://hyperallergic.com/58285/should-we-ignore-art-vandals/
The first story really bugs me. This guy does NOT seem revolutionary at all and I find it ridiculous that the gallerist is trying to defend what he did. I'd be very interested to see what the gallerist and artist would do if one of his pieces gets defaced...
At the very least, we now know the names of a gallery and an artist who don't care about art history or respecting it and so now, confidently, we can ignore most of anything that comes from either.
And for a follow-up, this blog has a review of the show which, rather unsurprisingly, sucked.
http://www.thegreatgodpanisdead.com/2012/10/the-uriel-landeros-exhibit-was-crashing.html
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