Was it a blank canvas that needed to be filled, or just a wall that didn’t deserve to be vandalized?

Either way, the Art Institute of Chicago is spending the better part of the day sandblasting off a 50-foot long graffito from the East wall of the new Modern Wing.

The entire act was caught on tape by the museum’s security system.

“From what we can see on the security tape, it was a team of people that did it in 20-30 minutes,” says Public Affairs Director Erin Hogan. The tagging, which Hogan describes as having “a good use of color,” starts with the words “modern art” and ends with the phrase “made you look.”  More after the Jump.

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