Why Do ‘Artists’ Vandalize Picassos? (To Get Noticed, Probably)

Four decades ago Tony Shalfrazi – then an artist, now an art dealer – walked into MoMA and spray-painted on Guernica. A couple of weeks ago, art student Uriel Landeros went to the Menil Collection and stencilled his own “addition” onto Woman in a Red Armchair – and Artinfo subsequently decided to publish a review (very favorable) of Landeros’s portfolio.