France – A sculpture by Anish Kapoor in the Versailles Palace gardens is being covered with gold leaf to mask anti-Semitic graffiti that caused an outcry in a country still reeling from January’s terror attack on a Jewish supermarket.
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The controversial red trumpet-shaped work by the British-Indian Jewish sculptor has been vandalized three times since its installation in June in the conservative town of Versailles.
A Versailles tribunal ruled over the weekend that the graffiti should be removed but Kapoor chose instead to gild it into obscurity — what the 61-year-old described to the Figaro newspaper as his “royal response” to the vandalism.
Workers are installing an alarm system to prevent further breaches of security on the work in the famed gardens.
This is what we risk here in the u.s.a. by letting in a large amount of near eastern refugees.
With the Syrians coming, expect that graffiti on the statue of liberty.