Better glaze that Gauguin...
April 4 2011
Picture: BBC
A picture by Gauguin on loan to the National Gallery of Art in Washington has been attacked during an exhibition.
Susan Burns pounded Two Tahitian Women and tried to rip it from a gallery wall on Friday, officials said. The 1899 painting, which depicts two women's bare breasts, was behind a plastic cover and was unharmed. She was charged with attempted theft and destruction of property and is being held pending a mental evaluation.
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