On the occasion of his solo-show in Versailles, Anish Kapoor’s controversial sculpture Dirty Corner (2011), which was installed in the gardens of the palace, was vandalized. In an official statement, Kapoor said that the incident was subjected to a "political question" and that the vandals represented "a small fraction of people who have been told that any creative act is an endangerment of a sacred past, revered to the extreme.". In fact, the artwork's sexual connotations unleashed a backlash from some conservative French commentators, who criticized the exhibition of Kapoor’s artwork in Versailles’ historical setting. ‘Works of art are sometimes a focus for the larger discomforts in society. My 'Dirty Corner' at Versailles has such a fate,’ the artist added. ‘It has been reviled in the press as the “Queen’s vagina” or the “vagina on the lawn” and has seemingly given offense to certain people of the extreme political right wing in France. In Art - what you see is not what you get. The verisimilitude of the art object fools us; "this is not a pipe" of Rene Magritte - reminds us that a good work of art receives all interpretations but settles on none.’ The work is currently being restored to its original condition.