Fragmented also relates to another element in the culture though, and a sometimes disturbing one: Destruction. This can be avant-garde. As when Ai Weiwei dropped a Han dynasty vase or Duchamp’s reaction to the cracking ofLarge Glassin transit after an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum in 1926-27, that this had completed the piece. “Do you think I would have made it out of glass if I hadn’t known it was going to break?” he said. It can also be brilliantly opportunist, as with Banksy’s auto-shredding ofGirl with Balloonon October 5, 2018, immediately after it had been auctioned at Sotheby's for £1,042,000. But it will usually be ugly, indeed ominous, as when climate protesters throw substances at paintings by, for instance, Van Gogh. Does Strati find this brouhaha relevant to his own work?