The result was five panicked artists, one extremely panicked subject, and a group of firefighters becoming the real artists here by channeling their inner Michelangelo:

"I call it Ode To Not Getting Paid Enough For This Shit."

Luckily, the girl survived her time in the plaster pond with no major injuries. Unluckily, all the artists were arrested for endangerment, including the girl who agreed to be endangered. Because while blaming the victim is normally fucking stupid, it's perfectly acceptable when dispensing justice for justice's sake.

Not surprisingly, somebody this proud of his crime was rather lackadaisical about hiding it -- he was caught and arrested a week later, and one of his first actions was to brag to his cellmate that he hadn't filmed a robbery -- he had filmed art. As for his colleagues at MIT (where he used to lecture), they seem to be taking it as a "That Wacky Joe" kind of moment, with one saying, "I don't think he meant anything by it other than he was just trying to get some good footage. I think he was genuinely working on a film and he just went a little too far with it."

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It's like when Daniel Day-Lewis got into character for Lincoln by starting an actual war.

Oh, well, in that case let him keep the $1,000, along with the $3,000 he got from the Rhode Island Citizens Bank he held up in November, presumably as a rehearsal for his big New York City debut. We're sure he'll use the money for something wholesome.

Underground Russian art group Blue Rider rejects this idea, believing that clinging to a failed past serves only to stunt the future's growth. So, in January, during Epiphany (the day Orthodox Christians celebrate Jesus' baptism), two Blue Riders named Oleg Basov and Yevgeny Avilov launched their latest project, "The Exorcist: Desecration Of The Mausoleum":

Chanting "arise and be gone," the two men marched right up to the mausoleum and doused it in nice, cold holy water. The intent was to prove that Lenin was never coming back, since if reviving him the Jesus way couldn't do the trick, it probably means he's dead forever. The cops didn't care, since symbolic exorcism looks an awful lot like trespassing and vandalism to the naked eye, and hauled them off to the cooler immediately.

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They made bail by dipping into a burlap sack with a giant ruble sign drawn in front.

The judge sentenced Basov and Avilov to 10 days in jail for "petty hooliganism," which is the most adorable splotch on a criminal record we've ever heard.

Dutch artist Art van Triest specializes in puzzles. On its own, that doesn't sound like anything -- nobody's claiming their kid's Dora The Explorer puzzle means anything other than 15 minutes of quiet mommy-drinking time, after all. But Art the Artist goes way beyond simple cardboard cut-ups -- he collects real-life, totally illegal weaponry and slices them apart, challenging his patrons to put them back together again, an act that could absolutely get everybody involved extensive prison time.

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Which, to be fair, would also happen if you ripped up the Mona Lisa
and then taped her back together.

See, the Netherlands really isn't keen on weaponry, whether they blow someone's head off in the streets or blow their mind in a fancy gallery. The country has very strict gun laws. So what does Van Triest do? He procures an illegal pistol, machete, and Kalashnikov rifle (traveling to Germany for the latter, since his own country was all out for some reason), uses a water jet cutter to slice them into dozens of puzzle pieces, and then puts them on display for the world to see.

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That's no way to treat your little friend.

And not just to see, but to touch and play with. In fact, Van Triest considers piecing the murder puzzles together to be the most important part of the work, despite their being probably the simplest puzzles ever created. Also, despite how doing so makes the patrons dirty criminals, since they're now technically in possession of a weapon. This constant risk of arrest is worth it to Van Triest, who wishes to "create work that embodies a kind of friction, an object that is at once a toy and a weapon." As for the patrons who might be more leery of prison time than he, Van Triest simply "challenge[s them] to think about and interact with objects they would rather avoid in everyday life."

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Like orange jumpsuits.