A petition calling for the removal of Andrea Saltini’s painting, which appears to depict the lifeless figure of Jesus receiving oral sex, garnered more than 30,000 signatures

A pair of activists sprayed and slashed the work depicting Arthur Balfour, whose 1917 letter advocated the creation of a ‘national home for the Jewish people’ in Palestine

The work in the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Tbilisi depicts St Matrona of Moscow, a visionary and healer, blessing the Soviet dictator

Joanna Smith faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison and up to a $250,000 fine

The original version of the artist's Venus of the Rags was set alight only two weeks after being installed outside the city's town hall

The characters DKS1860—referring to the football team 1860 Munich—were spray-painted on seven outdoor columns under the famous Italian landmark

A sculpture by Michelangelo Pistoletto was destroyed by fire in Naples on Wednesday

The museum is in contact with the owner, Musée d’Orsay, about reinstalling Le jardin de l’artiste à Giverny in its exhibition

A 230-year-old statue of a water nymph was scrawled over in blue ink

Work by Tschabalala Self will have to undergo professional restoration

A man and a woman have daubed red and black paint on the display case containing 'Little Dancer'

An extensive report chronicles the state of objects in the national collection following the riot in Brasília on 8 January

Vincent’s best-loved paintings are singled out by climate protestors

The White River Narrows, located around two hours north of Las Vegas, is known for its various petroglyph galleries that date back around 4,000 years

The 65-year-old tourist reportedly told museum staff he wanted to see the Pope before throwing the Roman busts to the ground

Aleksandr Vasiliev had used a ballpoint pen to draw eyes on the stylised figures in a painting by avant-garde artist Anna Leporskaya

The pictographs are nominated for listing in the US National Register of Historic Places

The 16ft-tall structure, sometimes referred to as "America’s Stonehenge", was built in 1980 and inscribed with a ten-part message that may have been meant to help survivors of an apocalyptic event rebuild society

The man destroyed three ancient Greek vessels, a Caddo sculpture and several other objects

"There are people who are destroying the planet, that's why I did it," the vandal said

The work was temporarily rehung for press, but the public will have to wait until a bulletproof "protective capsule" can be installed

The 63-year-old injured war veteran spoke to Russian news outlet E1, which describes the incident as a tragedy not a comedy

Work by Anna Leporskaya from the 1930s is undergoing restoration after "lapse in sanity" by museum employee during first day on the job

Campaigners have called for the removal of the statue for decades, which they say is “a monument to paedophilia”, but the BBC says it will stay

The National Park Service has issued an open call for information leading to the persons involved in the incident

Indigenous people proclaiming their own culture and history "makes some non-Natives nervous", says the artist Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds

Clasp statue at Newcastle University was defaced in May 2019 and again earlier this year

The Bureau of Land Management is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of those responsible

Government organisation Qatar Museums has launched campaign to encourage locals to respect public works