PARIS -- A woman defaced Eugene Delacroix 's painting "Liberty Leading the People" with a black marker as it hung in an outpost of the Louvre gallery in northern France. Police arrested a 28-year ...

His oil painting depicts a half-nude woman carrying a French flag in one hand and a musket with a bayonet in the other. She charges forward, surrounded by a group of demonstrators carrying weapons.

Notes Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. 147 "Description of the picture: from the Buffalo catalogue. 'the French Revolution of 1848' is painted on a canvas ten feet high by twenty feet long.

The Hammons flag, an eight-foot-long banner, is that rare art object that has actually flown from a flagpole. Gordon Parks’s photograph “American Gothic, Washington D.C. [Ella Watson],” 1942.