Vandalism posts
by Sean McLachlan (RSS feed) (5 months ago)
Aug 31st, 2011 at 11:30AM: A design of a reindeer hidden in the back of a Welsh cave may be the oldest cave art in the UK, archaeologists say. Sadly, it's been vandalized.
Unlike the more familiar cave paintings of France and Spain, the reindeer is scratched into the rock instead of being painted, like this horse from the Scottish cave of East Weymss courtesy Europe a la Carte. No photo of the reindeer has been released ...
by Katie Hammel (RSS feed) (2 years ago)
Sep 22nd, 2009 at 11:30AM: Paris' catacombs, underground passages full of neatly stacked human bones, have been temporarily closed to the public after being vandalized.
A spokeswoman for the Paris prosecutor's office would not go into detail on the extent of the vandalism, which took place over the weekend, but said that the site would be closed because in its current state it was hazardous to visitors. According to the ...
by Tom Johansmeyer (RSS feed) (3 years ago)
Feb 9th, 2009 at 9:00AM: Eyesore or art, graffiti is part of any culture's public dialogue. Vandalism is visual profanity, and we all swear in our own f---ing ways. I've been drawn to these wall scrawls for a while, probably since I read Holden Caulfield's concerns about the subject in Catcher in the Rye. My fascination gained momentum while I was stationed in South Korea. A soldiers' bar in Tong Du Chon (the Peace Club, ...
by Neil Woodburn (RSS feed) (4 years ago)
Jan 7th, 2008 at 9:30AM:
Hotel rooms and celebrities are often a bad combination; in fact, for some celebrities, the relationship between stardom and accommodation can be downright explosive. And that's when hotel rooms get trashed. Although destroying hotel rooms was once reserved solely for rock stars, their famous Hollywood counterparts have joined the club and now wreck havoc with comparable glee and abandon. In ...