Love the way Florian Graf invested the Abbey of Bellelay. Come to you via We Find Wildness.
Özlem Altin compiles ready made defacing for his art Defacing Installation. Comes to you via defacedbook.
See some Christian Boltanski’s pictures in Monumenta 2010. I liked this odd exhibition but like always… so far, so close. January 1st, 2010, my soon to be family in law had breakfast with Christian Boltanski and Annette Messager. These are artists that I will love to meet … but no luck. I’ll tell you the story. My future parents in law run a beautiful bed & breakfast (La Maison du Cordon) in a small town in Burgundy (Aignay-le-Duc) where a very important french artist lives (Bertand Lavier) … so far this reads like an art fairy tale and you will tell me it is not possible… but yes, they came to spend new year’s eve with Lavier and so they slept in my parents in law’s B&B. I think next New Year’s eve I will spend it in Burgundy … just in case.
Banksy defaces Hirst as well as others… Defacing art seems a strong tendancy now more than ever…
Included in the Sotheby’s auction at Larry Gagosian’s Chelsea digs, is the vandalized phone booth that Banksy installed on a street in the UK in 2005. If memory serves correct about this piece, an old lady remarked that crazy art students were always out of control. Another is a defaced Damien Hirst Pharmaceutical (spot) painting, tited ‘KEEP IT SPOTLESS’. Expect this lot (34) to break any auction record Banksy bidders had set previously. The auction, which is on Valentines Day includes many other notable lots (veritably a who’s who’s of contemporary art), including Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, Takashi Murakami, Andreas Gursky, Tim Noble & Sue Webster, and Marc Quinn. via TWBE

Martijn Hendriks, In the black of this long night, 2008. Installation view. Attempt to organize Google Image Search results according to defacement tactics Jpeg slideshow transferred to DVD, projection, 15 min 20 secs loop.
Martijn Hendriks does some digital defacing and comes to you via Art Lurker
Here is a small clip from the exhibition Portraits d’Amies at the opening reception on September 11th 2008.
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Video by Françoise Ellong & David Wolfer