Artist hangs unauthorized Met Gala-slamming art inside the Met

What BBN said about it

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentAn artist hung his own painting inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art without asking, and it was still on the wall the next morning.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe New York Post reports the piece criticizes the Met Gala. The artist is David Sabastian, and the painting is called The Met twenty twenty-seven.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentHe put it up on a Sunday, then posted a reel set to Baba O'Riley, the song every guy picks for a heist he's already pulled off.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe reel cuts between celebrity photos from the gala, including Zendaya and Sabrina Carpenter, and footage of crises around the world, according to Streamline Publishing.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo he made the gala's own photos do the arguing. That's a very efficient use of someone else's red carpet.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorHere at BBN we have team coverage, a live map of the gallery wall, and a recap with dramatic music. It is a hallway.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentWho checks?

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe gala ticket was a hundred thousand dollars this year, and it raised a record forty-two million for the Costume Institute.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorHis entry was free, so I'd call that an access-forward installation.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe Met's statement calls it an unscheduled acquisition. It's a lovely phrase, and the only part of this the Met curated.