“Comedy Terrorist” Convicted In Paint Throwing

Self-styled “comedy terrorist” Aaron Barschak has been convicted of throwing paint on Jake Chapman at a gallery in London earlier this year. “The 37-year-old splattered red oil paint over Chapman and one of his artworks at the Modern Art Oxford gallery. Witnesses said Barschak gatecrashed a talk by the brothers on May 30 this year and hurled the paint at Chapman shouting ‘Viva Goya’. Barschak, from Golders Green, north London, told the police that he was making his own piece of art in the same way the Chapmans had adapted another artist’s work.”