Friday, January 06, 2006
Indications the French don't understand art.
PARIS - A 76-year-old performance artist was arrested after attacking Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain" — a porcelain urinal — with a hammer, police said.Give this chap the Turner prize! ¶ 3:32 PM
The suspect, a Provence resident whose identity was not released, already vandalized the work in 1993 — urinating into the piece when it was on display in Nimes, in southern France, police said.
