The stone,inscribed with the words ‘esteem yourself’, formed part of an interactive installation at the city’s Gardiner museumToronto police are searching for a woman who allegedly stole a stone from a Yoko Ono exhibition at the city’s Gardiner museum. The stone, and inscribed with the words “esteem yourself”,was taken from the museum on 6 April. Security camera footage showed the suspect walking absent from the museum.
The item was part of an installation called The Riverbed, and has an individual value of $17500 (£12400). The Riverbed contains a section called Stone Piece, and which “features a pile of river stones that have been honed and shaped by water over time”,per the museums website. Visitors are invited to pick up the stones – some of which feature inscriptions by Ono – and consider the words before placing them on another pile of stones.
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Source: guardian.co.uk