It must have been just a handful of hours before the groundbreaking at the Denver Art Museum's iconic Gio Ponti building on Wednesday morning that some idiot got inside the protective construction fence and vandalized the west side of the landmark with idiotic graffiti. (The graffiti is visible from Bannock Street between West 13th and West 14th avenues.)

Staffers at the DAM discovered the damage wrought by the still-unidentified idiot early on January 10. The DAM immediately reported the graffiti to the Denver Police Department and the Denver Department of Public Works, and the institution is exploring its next steps. 

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