A 12-year-old Taiwanese boy lived out a slapstick nightmare at the weekend when he tripped at a museum and broke his fall with a painting, smashing a hole in it.
Mark Heap gives the cast a run for their money as Brian, the deranged conceptual artist downstairs struggling to express his emotions through painting, smashing boiled eggs with a hammer to explore his anger.
There was no spray paint, no smashing up of things, no expletives.
On Monday night, protesters had marched through San Francisco's Mission District, throwing paint and smashing storefront windows at dozens of businesses, restaurants and the local police station.
A work of art is somehow organic, and to slash a painting or smash a statue is not just an offense against property but an offense against life.
On Saturday night, the café was the target of an anti-gentrification protest because nothing says sticking it to The Man like hurling red paint and smashing the windows of a small independent business that trades on childhood nostalgia.
In the front gallery, one of the artist's trompe l'oeil replicas of a fly (materials include plastic, hair, wire and paint) is smashed to the wall, as if just swatted.
This year's derby will be his 20th Anniversary of painting cars, smashing them in the demolition derby, and creating art out of the scrap.
Ms. Knightley, on the other hand, throws herself bodily into every scene, sighing her way through the gauzy love-making montage and appearing at the climactic battle the next morning in face paint and a smashing leather combat brassiere, hurling herself at the Saxon invaders with full-throated Woad rage.
The world's first icons, predating the era of mass reproduction, originated in times when it was at least theoretically possible to smash every painting of a religious figure or tear down every statue of a potentate.
