Dutch pranksters display IKEA art in museum, fooling everyone

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Leave it to the Netherlands to prove that art is all about context.

A team of Dutch pranksters took a cheap, mass-produced print from IKEA and displayed it in a fancy art museum, telling patrons that it was by the artist Ike Andrews (get it?).

The trick fooled everyone from young punks to experienced museum-goers, one of whom described the piece as "a depiction of chaos inside [the artist's] mind." Another found the level of detail to be "unbelievable."

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