Student Says Vomiting on Painting Was an Artistic Act
By ANTHONY DePALMA
Published: Wednesday, December 4, 1996
When a museumgoer vomited on a Mondrian masterwork at the Museum of Modern Art in New York last month, museum officials called it ''an unfortunate incident'' and said the young man involved had apparently not done anything deliberate to harm the painting.
But now the man, a 22-year-old Toronto art student, has acknowledged that he intentionally defaced the painting, ''Composition in Red, White and Blue,'' in what he contended was an artistic statement about ''oppressively trite and painfully banal'' art.
http://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/04/ny...istic-act.html