At least three museums across the UK have had their collections increase in recent months.<\/p>\n
Artist Elias Marrow has been placing his art into the likes of Bristol Museum, Tate Modern, and National Museum Cardiff, before documenting the process art on his website.<\/p>\n
Little is explained about the works on the site but for photos of the work in situ and the date they were surreptitiously added.<\/p>\n
Marrow\u2019s most recent addition saw an AI-generated depiction of a young boy in school uniform holding a plate, hung on the walls of National Museum Cardiff on October 29th. The art was hung on the wall, complete with a fake museum label.<\/p>\n
The piece, Marrow writes, \u201crepresents Wales in 2025\u201d. National Museum Cardiff told Advisor the piece has since been identified and removed, but did not comment further.<\/p>\n
On July 9th, 2025, Marrow placed an unlabelled object inside Tate Modern\u2019s Turbine Hall, a piece he calls \u2018UNIT #6: LOAD-BEARING IRONY\u2019, which he writes \u201cwas not approved, sanctioned, or acknowledged\u201d.<\/p>\n
On July 5th, 2025, \u2018UNIT #13: ATMOSPHERIC RETURN\u2019 was added to Bristol Museum, seemingly a museum label including a QR code.<\/p>\n
The Unit numbers suggest that more of these objects could have been placed and are yet to be found.<\/p>\n
Marrow did not immediately respond to questions from Advisor.<\/p>\n
\u2018Hang-and-run\u2019 art<\/p>\n
The addition of unsanctioned \u2018hang-and-run\u2019 work to museums is not unique to Marrow. Between 2003-2005 Banky\u2019s \u2018Banksy Museum Pranks\u2019 series saw the artist add their own works to the walls of Tate Britain, the Louvre, the Natural History Museum and the British Museum.<\/p>\n
Peckham Rock, one of Banky\u2019s pieces, was a lump of concrete decorated in the style of a cave painting. It was added to the walls of the British Museum, without the knowledge of the museum staff, and reportedly sat unnoticed for several days.<\/p>\n
After it was removed from the British Museum\u2019s walls, it was re-exhibited in 2005 at the Outside Institute in London, listed as on loan from Banksy and the British Museum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least three museums across the UK have had their collections increase in recent months. Artist Elias Marrow…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-143251","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}