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Nick has a long and mystifying history of defacing major artworks around the world. The meaning of this obsession is, as yet, unknown.

While visiting the Delaware Art Museum on May 28th 2008 during their exhibition "The Baroque World of Fernando Botero", Nick was briefly detained by museum security after he attempted to lick what he called the "nummy frosting" from Botero's still life Feliz Cumpleaños. Nick was released after several hours.

Nick was banned for life from the then recently reopened New York City Museum of Modern Art in 2006 for attempting to "cannonball" into Claude Monet's 1920 masterpiece Water Lilies.

In Spring 2000, Nick attended the Tate Modern and urinated on the Fountain on display there. However, he was prevented from soiling the sculpture directly by its Perspex case. The Tate, which denied that Nick had succeeded in urinating into the sculpture itself, barred him from the premises indefinitely, stating that he was threatening "works of art and our staff". When asked why he felt he had to "add" to Marcel Duchamp's work, Nick said: "The urinal is there – it's an invitation. As Duchamp said himself, it's the artist's choice. He chooses what is art. I simply desire to add to it." This statement, published originally in Peter King's daily column on ESPN.com, has led many to believe that the role of the naif that Nick often affects while attempting to defile national masterpieces is a ploy to avoid federal prosecution.

Rumors that Nick stole the Mona Lisa's eyebrows in a daring heist persist but remain without solid evidence of support.