Can Destroying a Work of Art Ever be Justifiable?

A work of art can offend for one reason or another, but is there ever a good reason for destroying one? <h2>Destroying works of art</h2> There have been many cases down the centuries of works of art being deliberately destroyed for one reason or another. Sometimes it is for ideological reasons, such as when the Taliban in Afghanistan reduced the 6th-century Buddhas of Bamiyan to rubble in 2001; or it can be because someone simply abhors the work itself, an example being the burning of Graham Sutherland’s portrait of Sir Winston Churchill by Lady Churchill soon after its completion in 1954. A more recent example of a desire to destroy a painting because of what it portrays, rather than its artistic merit, arose in Russia in 2013. Vasily Boiko-Veliky is a wealthy businessman who has the ear of senior members of the Russian Government. He is therefore the sort of man whose views tend to get taken seriously. <a href="https://medium.com/the-worlds-great-art/can-destroying-a-work-of-art-ever-be-justifiable-e19fa2e8c9e4">Click Here</a>