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Why Coverage Of That Smashed Ai Wei Wei Vase In Florida Was So Bad

VISUAL Posted: February 28, 2014 6:57 am

“Stories of vandalism, destruction, forgery, and theft fascinate us because they are such tidy allegories of our relationship to art, a relationship that, at least since the time of the Armory Show, has consisted of a bizarre admixture of suspicion, discomfort, and occult reverence. Today, these attitudes are neatly characterized by the large fortunes that art sometimes commands.”

VISUAL Published: 02.28.14

Read the story in The New Yorker Published: 02.28.14

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