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(via After Alleged Attack, Making Sense of a Chelsea Exhibition’s Murky Backing)

On October 3rd, an assailant and two accomplices allegedly entered the cavernous gallery at 540 West 21st Street in Manhattan’s Chelsea district. What happened next, according to reports published here and in the New York Times, was an assault of the curator, Benjamin Hiller, with pepper spray, and the apparent partial defacing of the exhibition on view. The works in question depicted the Euromaidan protests in the Ukraine, to which half of the 12,000-square-foot space was given over. The other half documented the Syrian crisis.