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This Exhibition Invited Visitors To Steal The Art. How Long Did It Take For The Place To Be Stripped Bare?

VISUAL Posted: July 19, 2020 4:30 am

Roughly nine minutes. In famously low-crime Japan, no less. Organizer Tota Hasegawa, owner of the Same Gallery in Tokyo, had expected the “Stealable Art Exhibition” to run for ten days, but so many aspiring thieves showed up for the midnight start time last weekend that he had to open the doors half an hour early. (The cooperative Japanese crowd did obey the requests to take only one artwork per person and to steal quietly.) – Yahoo! (AFP)

VISUAL Published: 07.11.20

Read the story in Yahoo! (AFP) Published: 07.11.20

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