Reflections on art and architecture by TIME critic Richard Lacayo.

The World's a Hard Place for a Picture These Days

First that Monet gets punched and ripped in Paris. Now this. The attack actually took place last week, but only made it into the New York Times today.

Wasn't it the Europeans who were supposed to be the guardians of culture?

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