Threats of Staff Strikes Over Security Issues Put National Gallery's Popular Leonardo da Vinci Exhibition in Jeopardy

Late this summer, you might recall, “The Adoration of the Golden Calf” and “The Adoration of the Shepherds”, two paintings by Nicolas Poussin, were attacked and damaged at London’s National Gallery. Though the assailant was captured, given how much damage he was able to inflict before being stopped clearly indicated that there was something of a lack of security issue. So what does the gallery have planned? The Guardian reports that, due to calls for cutbacks within all government-funded organizations in the UK, the organization “ordered that each assistant should keep watch over two rooms rather than one.”