We’re going to talk to the cafe and ask them to remove them,” she told a news conference. It would be harder to persuade a separate restaurant, accessible from both the gallery and the street, to stop selling alcohol, she said. The painting depicts the tsar cradling his son after dealing him a mortal blow. When asked if she took responsibility for the attack, Tregulova said the incident had been hard to stop. It was a question of seconds,” she said, adding the gallery planned to review its security.

Source: The Guardian May 28, 2018 17:02 UTC