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A man, undressed for his underwear, went on a walk Wednesday night in Moscow's Tretyakov National Gallery in an "unauthorized performance," the state-run RIA Novosti news agency reported.
This was the third incident involving a visitor from one of RussiaThe main art galleries in less than a year.
Video sequences circulating on RussiaSocial media showed a relatively young man, his head shaved and wearing a red thong, 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 small works in its rooms, RIA reported.
No work or visitor had been threatened by the show, the gallery added.
Police were looking for the artist without clothes, said a source at the official TASS news agency.
This is the second incident in as many months involving visitors to the gallery and the third since May 2018.
In January, police arrested a filmed man taking "Ai Petri, Crimea", a mountain scene painted by Russian Arkhip Kuindzhi landscape gardener in 1908, leaving with him under the arm.
The painting was found intact, but the incident prompted the Ministry of Culture to order security checks at all stages. RussiaThe best museums.
Last May, a man damaged one of RussiaThe most famous paintings depicting Tsar Ivan the Terrible cradling his dying son by attacking him with a metal pole after drinking vodka.
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