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This was the third incident involving a visitor to one of
Russia's leading art galleries in under a year.
Video footage circulating on Russian social media showed a
relatively young man with a shaven head and wearing a red
G-string walking casually through the museum and stopping in
front of a large painting.
The gallery said the performance was staged by modern artists
who had left behind small artworks in its halls, RIA reported.
No artworks or visitors had been threatened by the performance,
the gallery added.
The police were now searching for the unclothed performer, a
source told TASS news agency.
This is the second incident in as many months involving visitors
at the gallery and the third since May 2018.
Police in January arrested a man caught on camera taking "Ai
Petri, Crimea", a mountain scene painted by Russian landscape
artist Arkhip Kuindzhi in 1908, and leaving with it under his
arm.
The painting was recovered undamaged, but the incident prompted
the Ministry of Culture to order security checks at all of
Russia's top museums.
In May last year, a man damaged one of Russia's most famous
paintings depicting Tsar Ivan the Terrible cradling his dying
son, by attacking it with a metal pole after drinking vodka.
(Reporting by Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber, editing by Nick Carey)
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