I feel like a van Gogh painting was a poorly picked target but also think van Gogh himself would approve.
8 points
They probably show off a replica, have the ‘real’ in some vault and just use copies because why wouldn’t you
13 points
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Depends on the museum. Big tourists centers, like the national gallery where the Van Gogh painting is, I doubt would ever do that because people travel from across the world to go there. I’ve definitely seen pieces labeled as ‘replica’ or ‘reproduction’ on the card next to it at smaller private collection museums.
Interestingly enough, if you read the cnn article for this Van Gogh painting incident, they mention that the painting is glazed and therefore there’s no actual damage to it
