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And then there is this art-related story from the BBC website! I guess everyone is an art critic – or bored. I like the ‘lapse in sanity’ possible motive. Hopefully this never happens to any of your customers and their artworks!
A Russian art gallery guard has been accused of doodling on a Soviet-era painting he was responsible for guarding on his first day in the job.
During a visit to the Yeltsin Center in Yekaterinburg in December, two visitors spotted eyes drawn in ballpoint pen on Anna Leporskaya's work Three Figures.
The avant-garde painting features three abstract, and usually eyeless, figures.
The security guard has since been fired and the police have opened a criminal investigation.
In a statement the Yeltsin Center's executive director Alexander Drozdov said the security guard was employed by a private security organisation.
It was also the security guard's first day in the job, exhibition curator Anna Reshetkina told Russian website ura.ru.
"His motives are still unknown but the administration believes it was some kind of a lapse in sanity," she said.
She added that he drew the eyes onto the painting with one of the Yeltsin Center's own branded pens, penetrating a layer of the paint.
Luckily, the culprit did not apply strong pressure to the canvas with the pen and as a result the damage did not go very deep, according to The Art Newspaper Russia which first broke the story.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60330758
