Vandals Punch a Monet, Security Officers and Locked Doors Nowhere to Be Found

Sad news in the continuing string of vandalism in French museums. It was reported yesterday by the Telegraph and others, how a group of four to five people snuck into the Musee d’Orsay and punched a hole through Monet’s “Le Pont d’Argenteuil” before running off when security showed up. It’s a tragic story, particularly following the numerous recent thefts of famous pieces of art elsewhere in the country and Sam Rindy‘s defacement of a Cy Twombly painting.

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