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Protest of the Day: Italian Museum Is Burning All Its Art
The Casoria Contemporary Art Museum in Naples has decided to protest the government's austerity measures... with FIRE.
A crazed museum director in Naples burned one of his own institution's paintings yesterday, and is threatening to destroy three more each week until Italy decides to better fund the arts.
A platoon of Italian commandos has taken up position around the Casoria Contemporary Art Museum in preparation of storming in with flash-bangs and beanbag guns. Actually, no: There's no indication that the Italian authorities care one whit about this wanton attack on the nation's cultural heritage. And that's kind of Manfredi's point. As he told the BBC, "Our 1,000 artworks are headed for destruction anyway because of the indifference of the government."