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News: Vandals at the Orsay, A Crack at the Tate Modern, Damien Hirst skull in St Petersburg

Today's arts news and gossip.

VANDALS broke into the Musée d'Orsay on Sunday and damaged Monet's "The Argenteuil Bridge", creating a four-inch tear in the painting. This was just one in a series of ugly incidents at museums throughout France, including an attack last year on Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain" by a self-proclaimed performance artist. (Though perhaps Duchamp would've been more amused.)

A new work by Doris Salcedo, a Columbian sculptor, which features a 167-metre crack in the floor, has been installed in the main hall of the Tate Modern in London. According to the artist, the crack, which will remain as a scar on the museum's floor after it is filled in the spring, represents borders and racial division. The work took five weeks to install and over a year to create.

Damien Hirst's "For the Love of God", a diamond and platinum skull that was recently sold to a group of investors for $100m, will go on display at the State Heritage Museum in St Petersburg in May as part of the museum's international contemporary-art project. The investors who bought the skull have already announced that they will re-sell the work, though they have yet announce a date.