Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Artist in trouble for covering underwater sculptures near Cancun with her work

A Polish artist famed for slipping crocheted covers around unlikely objects has gotten into hot water in Mexico for slipping her brightly colored work around underwater sculptures near Cancun.

Agata Oleksiak, who uses the name Olek, said she intervened at the Cancun Underwater Museum this month to call attention to the dangers facing species such as the whale shark.

But museum director Jaime Gonzalez said she did so without permission, and may herself have damaged marine life growing on the sculptures in an environmentally protected area.

"Believe it or not, there is a lot of marine life growing, incrusted in . . .

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