[size=-1] Many a visitor to New York's Museum of Modern Art has probably thought, "I could do that."
[/size] [size=-1] A British graffiti artist who goes by the name "Banksy" went one step further, by smuggling in his own picture of a soup can and hanging it on a wall, where it stayed for more than three days earlier this month before anybody noticed. [/size]
[size=-1]The prank was part of a coordinated plan to infiltrate four of New York's top museums on a single day. [/size]
[size=-1] The largest piece, which he smuggled into the Brooklyn Museum, was a 2 foot by 1.5 foot (61cm by 46 cm) oil painting of a colonial-era admiral, to which the artist had added a can of spray paint in his hand and anti-war graffiti in the background. [/size]
[size=-1] The other two targets were the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History, where he hung a glass-encased beetle with fighter jet wings and missiles attached to its body -- another comment on war, Banksy told Reuters on Thursday. [/size]
[size=-1] "It was just an outsider's view of the modern American bug, bristling with listening devices and military hardware," he said. [/size]
[size=-1] An art Web site called www.woostercollective.com has posted pictures of the artist -- wearing an Inspector Clouseau-style overcoat, a hat and a fake beard and nose -- hanging up his work at the four museums and describing how he did it.
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[/size] [size=-1] A British graffiti artist who goes by the name "Banksy" went one step further, by smuggling in his own picture of a soup can and hanging it on a wall, where it stayed for more than three days earlier this month before anybody noticed. [/size]
[size=-1]The prank was part of a coordinated plan to infiltrate four of New York's top museums on a single day. [/size]
[size=-1] The largest piece, which he smuggled into the Brooklyn Museum, was a 2 foot by 1.5 foot (61cm by 46 cm) oil painting of a colonial-era admiral, to which the artist had added a can of spray paint in his hand and anti-war graffiti in the background. [/size]
[size=-1] The other two targets were the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History, where he hung a glass-encased beetle with fighter jet wings and missiles attached to its body -- another comment on war, Banksy told Reuters on Thursday. [/size]
[size=-1] "It was just an outsider's view of the modern American bug, bristling with listening devices and military hardware," he said. [/size]
[size=-1] An art Web site called www.woostercollective.com has posted pictures of the artist -- wearing an Inspector Clouseau-style overcoat, a hat and a fake beard and nose -- hanging up his work at the four museums and describing how he did it.
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