The black square marks the four-inch-long rip in "The Argenteuil Bridge."
A Claude Monet painting, "The Argenteuil Bridge," survived two world wars and generations of viewing relatively unscathed, until Sunday. That's when a group of four men and a woman broke into the Musee d'Orsay in Paris and wandered around drunkenly among the priceless artworks before one of them stuck a fist through the 1874 impressionist masterpiece.
From the NYT:
The break-in is an embarrassment for the museum and also points up the vulnerability of some of the main institutions and monuments in France.
In August, another Monet was stolen from a museum in Nice.
Yesterday's vandalism happened during the annual "White Night" arts and music festival. The five vandals got away.
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