I Actually Cite Art in America

A 2001 article in Art in America called Polish Passions Destroy 2 Artworks. Entertaining. Note the point at which an unsung hero steps in to historically contextualize at a key moment.

Olbrychski arrived at the museum with a television news crew in tow and, refusing to heed an elderly attendant's entreaties to check his coat, stormed into the gallery containing The Nazis. There he extracted a saber from under the coat and proceeded to slash his photograph, along with three others (including one of his friend Jean-Paul Belmondo, who wrote a note expressing support for the gesture). Olbrychski apparently spirited one photograph away and held a brief press conference on the steps of the Zacheta before driving off. Subsequently, minister of culture Kazimierrz Ujazdowski ordered that a text panel be placed at the entrance of the show to historically contextualize the material, but the artist, seeing this as an act of censorship, preferred to let the exhibition be closed 10 days early.