A British artist who created a controversial sculpture at the Palace of Versailles that has become known as the "queen's vagina" lashed out at French "intolerance" Thursday after his work was vandalised, reports Yahoo! News.
The work "dirty corner" by Anish Kapoor was found sprayed with yellow paint on Wednesday and is now being cleaned by palace authorities.
"If this act of vandalism means anything, it speaks more to a certain intolerance in France than to art itself," Kapoor said in an interview with Le Figaro daily.
"The problem seems more political than anything else," he added.
The 60-metre (200-foot) long, 10-metre (33-foot) high steel-and-rock abstract sculpture by the British-Indian sculptor, resembling a funnel in the form of an orifice, is set up in the garden aimed directly at the royal chateau, which attracts five million tourists a year.