"Mr. Hardwicke said no art work had been damaged"

Fascist museum stops expression by artist during "art" show.

A man was arrested early Sunday at the Whitney Museum of American Art after he spray-painted graffiti on a blank wall at the Jeff Koons retrospective during a 36-hour event to close the popular exhibit.

And then the fucking Times calls this creative genius a "vandal". C'mon, no true artist can resist a blank canvas.

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The usual bullshit charges are filed.

The man, Christopher Johnson, 33, of Manhattan, was arrested on charges of criminal mischief, making graffiti, possession of a graffiti instrument and criminal nuisance, the police said. He was taken into custody by police after he struggled with the museum’s security guards.

"Graffiti instrument." Soon possession of pens, pencils &/or blank paper will be criminal. Possession of a Sharpie® will be a capital offense. And just when in the fucking hell were "mischief" & "nuisance" criminalized? I have a list twice as long as both my arms of certain loud-mouthed public figures who've been criminally annoying me for almost 60 yrs. Can the criminal justice system do something about these fucking annoyances before this reporter administers vigilante justice to them? (The race is on, but you aren't going to be running too fast in that stupid dressrobe you're wearing, your honor!)

The real problem may be what the Whitney decides to exhibit. Is there a pattern here?

It was not the first graffiti incident at the Koons exhibit, which opened in June. In August, a man splashed a red substance on a blank gallery wall on the third floor of the museum near the artist’s “Rabbit” sculpture. The man was removed by police, and no art was damaged.

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The exhibit featured Mr. Koons’s shiny sculptures, framed posters and glossy paintings, along with household appliances and children’s toys. The art critic Roberta Smith called it a “gripping show” that “chronicles a sculptural career that is singular for its profusion of color, crafts and materials.”

I think we all know just what Mr. Koons is "gripping," & probably a bit too tightly.