A teen hurled water at two renowned centuries-old paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and ripped tapestries off the wall in a bizarre tantrum, authorities and law-enforcement sources said Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Joshua Vavrin, 19, of Texas appeared to be under the influence of an \u201cunknown substance\u2019\u2019 \u2014 and was turned over by his mother, sources said.<\/p>\n
Joshua Vavrin, 19, allegedly doused this 19th century oil-on-canvas \u201cmasterpiece,\u201d \u201cPrincesse de Broglie,\u201d with water. Sepia Times\/Universal Images Group via Getty Images<\/p>\n
The teen\u2019s water-hurling rampage also targeted the 16th century canvas altarpiece \u201cMadonna and Child with Saints\u201d by Girolamo dai Libri, sources said. Sepia Times\/Universal Images Group via Getty Images<\/p>\n
Vavrin doused the 19th-century oil-on-canvas \u201cPrincesse de Broglie,\u201d by French portraitist Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres \u2014 hailed as a \u201cmasterpiece\u2019\u2019 by the Met on its website \u2014 in a 4:50 p.m. frenzy Monday inside the iconic Fifth Avenue museum in Manhattan, cops and sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He also splashed the 16th-century altarpiece \u201cMadonna and Child with Saints\u201d by Girolamo dai Libri, sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Altogether, Vavrin allegedly caused $4,000 in damage to the works of art, sources said. NurPhoto via Getty Images<\/p>\n
During his rampage, Vavrin ripped two historic tapestries off the wall, too, sources said.<\/p>\n
He allegedly caused $1,000 in damage per artwork and charged with criminal mischief, cops and sources said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teen hurled water at two renowned centuries-old paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and ripped tapestries…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":355864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[11307,648,1032,1033,171,5249,5248,50558,1069,67,132,68,1154,1130],"class_list":{"0":"post-355863","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arrests","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-manhattan","14":"tag-metro","15":"tag-metropolitan-museum-of-art","16":"tag-painting","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-us-news","21":"tag-vandalism"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115493465139424547","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}