The Los Angeles Police Department caught and arrested two French nationals vandalizing buildings with “buckets of grout and pieces of tile” near the LA Museum of Contemporary Art’s Little Tokyo gallery this past Friday.
One of the vandals seems to be the famed French street artist Space Invader, reports the LA Times.
Space Invader is known for installing his little icons, replicas of aliens from the early Space Invaders video game, on buildings all over the world. But this time, he seems to have invaded the wrong space.
The LA Times writes, “The pair were released while the investigation continued, and Richter said officials were checking with federal immigration officials to see if they had flown back to Paris.”
So the alleged Space Invader was arrested and his marks found on other buildings in the area, including on the Geffen Contemporary, but the artist is possibly out of the country already.
