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A man destroyed a porcelain sculpture by Ai Weiwei seemingly on purpose during the opening reception of an exhibition dedicated to the Chinese dissident artist on Friday evening in Italy.

The destroyed work was Ai’s blue-and-white Porcelain Cube, which was included in a survey on Ai titled “Who am I?” at the Palazzo Fava in Bologna, which opened to the public on Saturday.

Footage of the destruction was captured on CCTV and posted to Instagram by Ai. In the video, the man steps onto the plinth that holds the Cube and pushes it forward, shattering the work. He then lifted up a portion of the broken porcelain over his head. The work was installed in an atrium near the museum giftshop and ticket office.

The Bologna edition of Milan-based daily newspaper Corriere della Sera identified the man as 57-year-old Czech Vaclav Pisvejc, who was stopped by museum security and detained until police arrived. It is still unclear how he entered the museum during the invite-only reception. He was arrested for “destruction, dispersion, deterioration, defacement, soiling and illicit use of cultural or landscape assets,” according to the paper.

Arturo Galansino, the exhibition’s curator and the director general of Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi  in Florence, told Reuters, “Unfortunately, I know the author of this inconsiderate gesture from a series of disturbing and damaging episodes over the years involving various exhibitions and institutions in Florence.”

A new study shows that attendance at French museums, monuments and other heritage sites have recovered to pre-pandemic levels with 46.8 million visitors in 2023.

According to the latest edition of the Patrimostat, the annual reference publication on attendance at heritage sites and establishments from the Department of Studies, Foresight, Statistics and Documentation (DEPS) of the Ministry of Culture, the total number of visitors at more than 1,450 museums and 46,000 monuments is 13 percent higher than 2022 and 7 percent higher than 2019.

Some institutions which experienced above-average increases in visitors for 2023 compared to the previous year included the Musée d’Orsay (18 percent), the Musée de l’Orangerie (22 percent), and the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac (1.4 million tickets sold for an increase of 40 percent), as well as the national monuments Mont-Saint-Michel (23 percent) and the Conciergerie (41 percent).

Other institutions received much smaller increases or experienced declines. Versailles received 8.4 million visitors, a rise of 2 percent, but the Louvre had 8.8 million (decrease of 7 percent) and visitor numbers at the Centre Pompidou fell 20 percent to 2.6 million due to weeks of strike actions.

The report said that almost two-thirds (62 percent) of French citizens visited a cultural institution of some form at least once in 2023, compared to 63 percent in 2019. But while 59 percent went to a historical monument, only 34 percent visited a museum or temporary exhibition (down from 41 percent in 2019), and 13 percent of French citizens visited a fine arts museum.