{"id":668781,"date":"2026-10-29T11:24:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T11:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/668781\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T11:24:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T11:24:25","slug":"la-artist-snuck-his-own-drawing-onto-the-mets-walls-and-filmed-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/668781\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Artist Snuck His Own Drawing onto the Met\u2019s Walls and Filmed It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/t\/metropolitan-museum-of-art\/\" id=\"auto-tag_metropolitan-museum-of-art\" data-tag=\"metropolitan-museum-of-art\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/a> became an unwitting new home for a work by the Los Angeles\u2013based artist David (Sabastian) Miklatski, who snuck a drawing onto one of the institution\u2019s walls and documented its time there for all the world to see.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAs <a href=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/artist-sneaks-his-work-into-the-met-museum\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> by Hyperallergic, \u201cIn a viral Instagram reel, multi-hyphenate artist David (Sabastian) Miklatski detailed the steps of creating and surreptitiously installing a drawing on one of The Met\u2019s gallery walls last Sunday, October 25. The work in question, The MET 2027, is an oil pastel painting depicting a Met Gala attendee ascending the staircase flanked by shrubs and photojournalists as police in riot gear beat down protestors in a fiery scene in the foreground.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tMiklatski\u2019s Instagram <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/De9xKU6BYU-\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reel<\/a>, set to the soundtrack of The Who\u2019s \u201cBaba O\u2019Riley\u201d (aka \u201cTeenage Wasteland\u201d), shows his work at the Met interspersed with starry images from the Met Gala\u2014which the artist describes as \u201can event where billionaires donate millions of dollars so celebrities can play dress up in the name of art\u201d\u2014and horrific images from Congo, Paris, Milan, Gaza, Haiti, Ukraine, and the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tOf the work, Miklatski says he \u201cdid it in crayon to make it extra ridiculous,\u201d before detailing how he pulled off the caper with the aid of a baby stroller, a portable speaker loaded with sex noises, and a deceptive friend in on the ruse.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Metropolitan Museum of Art became an unwitting new home for a work by the Los Angeles\u2013based artist&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60,10159],"class_list":["post-668781","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","tag-metropolitan-museum-of-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668781","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=668781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}