Stealable Art Exhibition

2020 CE.

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Stealable Art Exhibition (Japanese: 盗めるアート展) was planned by art director Touta Hasegawa and held at the same gallery in Ebara, Shinagawa, Tokyo, on July 9, 2020. It was an experimental project in which the gallery where the works were exhibited was left unguarded day and night for 10 days, and visitors were free to "steal" any work they liked at any time. On the first day of the exhibition, about 200 people who had heard about the show crowded in front of the venue, and just before the opening time, they avalanched into the gallery and immediately took all 11 works, closing the exhibition almost instantly.

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