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Jun 11, 2008

A guard at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, U.S.A. has defaced a Latvian painting worth $1.2 million. The painting, a work by Vita Celmina titled Night Sky Number 12, was destroyed when security guard Timur Serebrykov, 27, attacked it with a set of keys. Serebrykov initially denied destroying the work, but later confessed after learning that the crime had been caught on tape by a nearby surveillance camera. “I did it with a key… I did not like the painting… excuse me,” Serebrykov told i ...


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