Damaged art

Suspect detained after works damaged at Vatican altar

A video shared to social media shows a figure standing on the main altar in St Peter’s Basilica

Tribeca galleries damaged in two-alarm fire

The Journal Gallery and Asya Geisberg Gallery, both located at 45 White Street in Manhattan, were both impacted by an outbreak of flames

Ancient petroglyph irreparably damaged in Mexico

Someone attempted to dislodge a drawing of a hand from a rock with more than 150 motifs dating back thousands of years

‘Unacceptable’: Ai Weiwei responds to his sculpture being smashed at Italian exhibition opening

The artist was 'shocked and surprised' after 'Porcelain Cube' was destroyed by a man at Palazzo Fava in Bologna