10-02-2020 18:51 via theguardian.com

A $20,000 artwork accidentally destroyed by a critic? That's nothing!

I sympathise with the critic who smashed Gabriel Rico’s sheet of glass work. I once knocked a priceless artefact off the director of the Louvre’s deskArt critics, by our very nature, are prone to taking violently against inanimate objects. Yet we are also given exclusive access to precious masterpieces, with minimal supervision. Now the inevitable has happened. Art critic Avelina Lésper has destroyed a $20,000 piece by Gabriel Rico at an art fair in Mexico City. She says the o
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