Thursday, April 12, 2018

Police are on the lookout for the woman who stole a $17,500 rock from a Yoko Ono exhibition.


An installation at the Gardiner Museum in Toronto is more hands-on than your typical exhibition. “YOKO ONO: THE RIVERBED” by the 85-year old artist, musician and activist, asks visitors to do several physical tasks, including pick up river stones —some of which include handwritten inscriptions by Ono herself—and place them in a pile. But one woman appears to have taken the “hands-on” suggestion a little too literally. Rather than place her rock in the pile, she allegedly stole it, Laura Snapes reports for The Guardian. The rock, valued at a cool $17,500, was inscribed by Ono with the words “Love Yourself.”
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