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The Wildest Art Stories of 2022

The unbelievable, hilarious, or just plain mind-boggling things that happened in the world of art in 2022.

via Hyperallergic: http://hyperallergic.com/790214/wildest-art-stories-of-2022/

Many moons ago (May 2022), back when tomato soup was but a comforting and inexpensive supper option and museums did not have to de-attach climate activists from their art historical masterpieces, there was this man who disguised himself as an elderly woman, entered the Louvre in a wheelchair, and smeared cake on the Mona Lisa. “Think of the planet,” he wailed, before museum security wheeled him away from the glass-protected paintings.