{"id":216236,"date":"2026-04-02T16:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/216236\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T16:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:22:08","slug":"outdoor-sculpture-vandalized-at-museum-of-fine-arts-st-pete-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/216236\/","title":{"rendered":"Outdoor Sculpture Vandalized At Museum Of Fine Arts: St. Pete Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, FL \u2014 Detectives are investigating the vandalization of an outdoor sculpture on display at the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg. <\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, someone damaged a part of Yvette Mayorga\u2019s \u201cMagic Grasshopper,\u201d a pink-hued 30-foot-long sculpture displayed in front of the museum at 255 Beach Drive NE.<\/p>\n<p>The work offers \u201c critical narratives of migration, feminized labor and colonial histories,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/mfastpete.org\/exhibition\/magic-grasshopper\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to the MFA website<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Two shoe and decorative flower displays were taken sometime between late Friday and Saturday, police said. <\/p>\n<p>The incident is considered a grand theft felony offense.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about the incident or who is responsible is asked to contact St. Petersburg police at 727-893-7780 or by texting \u201cSPPD\u201d and their tip to TIP411.<\/p>\n<p>See Also:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, FL \u2014 Detectives are investigating the vandalization of an outdoor sculpture on display at the Museum&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-216236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}