Kyoto Art Festival Sculpture Destroyed, Organizers Suspect Drunken Vandals
An art installation displayed in Kyoto’s historic Takase River has been mysteriously broken in half, leaving festival organizers furious and suspecting that drunken troublemakers may have climbed onto the sculpture and destroyed it, with the damage apparently occurring on more than one occasion.
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