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Ulay: 'There Is a Criminal Touch to Art'

In 1976 the artist Ulay walked into a Berlin museum, took Carl Spitzweg's 'The Poor Poet' — reputedly Hitler's favourite painting — and hung it in the home of a Turkish immigrant family, then phoned the museum to confess. The act was the artwork.

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