Apropos the caricatures of Mohamed* brouhaha, here's Artcrime, a site dedicated to the history of vandalism against artworks. Unfortunately the site appears moribund and neglects to mention my favourite case: the veiling and eventual decapitation of "Down by the Lake with Liz and Phil", an outdoor sculpture by Greg Taylor of a nude Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip sitting on a bench near Lake Burley-Griffin in Canberra. As a result of the initial press controversy, a retired Queensland cop was prompted to travel all the way to the national capital to attempt to cover their Majesties' nakedness with some T-shirts he'd brought with him. After scuffling with curatorial staff who had removed the garments, the old copper left, his point made, but later that night someone decapitated the statue of the Queen (because, of course, a statue of a naked monarch is significantly more offensive than a statue of a decapitated, naked monarch. Or maybe they were republicans**.) Art appreciation's a funny thing, innit?

Hmm, they also don't seem to have that loon who went after the Pieta with a chisel.

* if by caricatures of Mohamed, you mean deliberately offensive Islamic stereotypes cooked up as a publicity stunt by some bigoted hacks seeking to defame Muslim immigrants under the cover of Western "Enlightenment values".

** advocates of an Australian republic, not the American party of nutters and sociopaths.