🚨 This stunt, as absurd as it was, raises questions about the increasingly entangled relationship between art, commerce and the a...

🚨 This stunt, as absurd as it was, raises questions about the increasingly entangled relationship between art, commerce and the algorithmic logic of social media. 🖼️ Over the weekend, videos began circulating on social media allegedly showing FBI agents breaking into a Chelsea art gallery during an exhibition opening to confiscate what was described as a “stolen” Rembrandt masterpiece—right in the middle of a crowded reception. Among the first to post the video on Instagram was filmmaker and Instagram influencer David Ma (@davidwma), who has 172k followers on the platform and more than a million on TikTok. Not long after the footage went viral, the entire spectacle was revealed to be a performance orchestrated by a previously unheard-of entity calling itself 13 Masterpieces—a name that, in itself, nods to the number of works stolen from the Gardner Museum. https://lnkd.in/dauRrHtm