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London street painted in Ukrainian colours
At least four wheelbarrows of yellow and blue paint were spilt on the street outside the Russian Embassy in London yesterday (Thursday).
One the eve of the one-year anniversary of the illegal invasion of Ukraine, the protesters poured the paint – the colours of the Ukrainian national flag - on a 500-square metre section of the Bayswater Road near Earls Court.
They used 300 litres of paint which was poured from wheelbarrows, and then smeared the paint on to the road using sweeping brushes to make the flag.
Traffic was brought to standstill and many cars and buses were forced to drive on to the wet paint which resulted in blue and yellow tyre marks being carried all over the vicinity.
The paint-spill was organised by a group called Led by Donkeys.
"Contrary to what the Russian dictator and his apologists claim, Ukraine is an in- dependent State and a people with every right to self-determination,” said a group statement. a highway.
"The existence of a massive Ukrainian flag outside his embassy in London will serve to remind him of that."
An American woman left a Florida art show mortified after accidentally knocking over a €40k art piece.

‘Look but don’t touch’ is a very valuable lesson that an unknown elderly woman learnt last Thursday when she tapped a €40,000 porcelain balloon dog sculpture with her finger - toppling it to the ground, shattering it to pieces. The incident occurred at the VIP-only opening night of ‘Art Wynwood’, an art fair held annually in Miami, Florida. The sculpture in question was one of Jeff Koons’ world renowned ‘Balloon Dogs’. Local artist Stephen Gamson, who was in attendance at the fair, told local newspaper ‘The Miami Herald’ he saw the woman touch off of the imitation balloon and the events that followed.

"It was really the star of this booth!” Gamson said. "When this thing fell to the ground, it was like how a car accident draws a huge crowd on the highway."
Luckily for the woman, who’s identity remains unknown, the sculpture is covered under insurance so she won’t fall under the ‘break it, buy it’ approach. Some at the fair compared it to a 2021 incident when a work by the artist ‘Banksy’ was shredded after it was sold at auction. Unlike everything else breaking, art is a different story. The aforementioned Gamson immediately offered to purchase the pieces of the sculpture after the incident with the explanation being: "I find value in it even when it's broken.
To me, it's the story. It makes the art even more interesting."