{"id":606602,"date":"2026-08-27T21:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T21:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/606602\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T21:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T21:40:11","slug":"police-break-into-vancouver-gallery-after-confusing-sculpture-for-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/606602\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Break Into Vancouver Gallery After Confusing Sculpture for Person"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <a class=\"gh-article-tag\" href=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/tag\/news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gh-article-excerpt is-body\">A passerby called 911 earlier this month after interpreting the protruding legs of an anthropomorphic sculpture as a person in need of medical assistance. <\/p>\n<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/author\/anna-lee\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-profile-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/anna-lee.jpg\" alt=\"Anna Lee\"\/><br \/>\n                            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Access-Pending-009.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1875\" height=\"2500\"  \/>Allysa Pierre&#8217;s &#8220;Untitled (the preparator)&#8221; (2024) (photo courtesy Access Gallery)<\/p>\n<p>Emergency personnel forced entry into Access Gallery in Vancouver on the night of August 14, after a 911 caller mistook a sculpture of an art preparator as a person in need of medical attention, as first reported by the local media outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/vancouver.citynews.ca\/2026\/08\/19\/vpd-breaks-into-gallery-to-rescue-sculpture\/?ref=hyperallergic.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CityNews<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officers were dispatched to the downtown address after a witness reported &#8220;a person&#8217;s feet protruding from behind a counter &#8230; and believed medical assistance was required,&#8221; a spokesperson for the Vancouver Police Department (VPD) told Hyperallergic. Emergency responders broke the gallery lock, breached the front door, and subsequently realized it was a false alarm.<\/p>\n<p>As the gallery faces a 1,000 CAD (~$722) repair bill, the incident has sparked online speculation that the witness could have thought artist Allysa Pierre&#8217;s \u201cUntitled (the preparator)\u201d (2024) was a person experiencing an overdose\u201a a fairly common sight amid Vancouver&#8217;s ongoing <a href=\"https:\/\/vancouver.ca\/people-programs\/drugs.aspx?ref=hyperallergic.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">opioid crisis<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    Create a free account, or sign in to continue reading.<\/p>\n<p>Registered readers of Hyperallergic get access to a limited number of free articles every month, and the Hyperallergic Daily newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>      <a class=\"gh-btn\" data-portal=\"signup\" style=\"color:#00AEEE\">Subscribe now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Already have an account? <a data-portal=\"signin\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"News A passerby called 911 earlier this month after interpreting the protruding legs of an anthropomorphic sculpture as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-606602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606602","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=606602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}