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I was at MOMA this morning and saw this and had to photo it. It’s by Meret Oppenheim.

I haven’t seen an Oppenheim in AGES and it’s just flashed me back to my first college apartment and the OPPENHEIM CUPCAKE HEIST.

Storytime: I used to live in a cute little apartment with my sister and another roommate named Christina, an art student. For one of her projects, Chris decided she’d have a gallery opening/auction to explore the “value” of art in terms of money, desirability, aesthetics, etc. People would bid on the art and as people bid the price would go up, and there were probably other mechanics to this I’m forgetting. The important thing here is that she needed something that would be bother “art” and something college students would want.

Answer: FOOD. More specific answer: SUGAR.

So we baked a bunch of cakes and cupcakes and Christina decorated them as Pollocks and Mondrians and Van Goghs and a bunch of others. (I really wish I still had the pictures from this night). She also took a bunch of cupcakes and covered them in fake fur, to be Oppenheims, because that’s what Oppenheim does.

My sister and I, probably inspired by this brand new show called Leverage, come to think of it, decided we would be art thieves and “steal” an Oppenheim cupcake. To more fully replicate the economics of the art world of course. We even disappeared into our room for a bit and cut up magazines to make a ransom note, left it stealthily near the cupcakes, did a neat little lift and swap and ducked outside to stash the Oppenheim for later. Which is when we noticed something.

Someone had eaten the cupcake.

They’d taken the fur off, eaten half, and replaced the fur.

WE’D STOLEN A FORGED CUPCAKE.

That’s the art world for you.  

This story is SO RELEVANT TO MY INTERESTS RIGHT NOW and I can’t explain why just yet but I am looking forward to being able to.

@copperbadge sam, i feel like this might be relevant to several of your interests.

AHAHAHA. THE THEFT OF A FORGED CUPCAKE!

This somehow reminds me of how, when the Mona Lisa was stolen in 1911, one of the PRIME SUSPECTS was Pablo Picasso, who had in fact stolen several works from the Louvre.