Two Nicolas Poussin Paintings Attacked, Damaged at London's National Gallery

It’s perhaps proving not to be a good year to be a piece of art hanging on a museum wall. Just a few months after Andres Serranos‘ infamous and fairly-used-to-attacks “Piss Christ” was destroyed in France by a group of protestors wielding a hammer and an ice pick, and before that the attempted-but-failed attack on a Gauguin at Washington DC’s National Gallery of Art, this weekend saw “The Adoration of the Golden Calf” and “The Adoration of the Shepherds”, both by Nicolas Poussin, damaged

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