It's always disturbing to see vandalism in our national parks, but it's not so clear, as this New York Times story suggests, that social media is exacerbating the problem.
Like some kind of paranoid Banksy, a woman entered a Louvre gallery today and scrawled 9/11 conspiracy graffiti on Eugene Delacroix's canvas Liberty Leading the People.
Life imitates art in the city's war on graffiti
Sensationalism combined with the murky art market have burned the museum before
The anonymous graffiti artist loses a work to the indoors
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