Now let me get this straight. An artist in Florida has been charged with criminal mischief for dropping/breaking a vase by Ai Weiwei in an exhibition at a local museum. It was a protest at the museum's failure to exhibit local artists.

Ai Weiwei was understandably not pleased. He said he disapproved of artists destroying other artists' work. But in 1995 he made a triptych of photos showing him dropping/breaking a Han dynasty vase. Apparently the difference is that he owned the vase he dropped while the Florida artist did not. I think I find this a jesuitical piece of nit-picking. In both cases an artist was destroying another artist's work. No?