LONDON (AP) — Two artists are showing off more than 10,000 private photographs they claim to have stolen from people’s hard drives.
It’s part of an exhibition at London‘s Carroll/Fletcher Gallery which features minute fragments chipped, cut or torn from works by Andy Warhol, Marcel Duchamp, and others.
Gallery co-founder Steve Fletcher said Thursday that the artists were able to exploit filesharing blunders to take the images from computers around the world. They’re being projected in a slideshow at an exhibition due to open Friday.
Also on display: Bits and pieces of precious artworks sneaked out of museums.
Those behind the installation say they meant the thefts to be a tribute to the artists they love, theft and hacking are both illegal in the UK.
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