There was a painting on the wall, just like the one described in the story.
At one point Degas was said to have ripped a patron's Degas painting off the wall and attempted to repossess it when he found that the man had changed the Degas frame.
Many of the surrounding walls, which are brightly decorated with graffiti art, are the product of locally-organised painting sessions known as the Wall Project, which get people together with spray cans and paintbrushes to beautify their surroundings.
In June, Istavrioglou allegedly posed as a potential gallery customer, lifted the painting off a wall, placed it in a shopping bag and left the gallery, according to the district attorney's office statement.
His high-profile stunts have included painting "I want out" inside the elephant enclosure of London Zoo and a painting of a ladder on the partition wall in Israel's West Bank.
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Halfway through the sale, he pointed to a large painting of a boatful of people hanging on the far wall.
Meanwhile, she was the catalyst behind the Twombly painting from his Rome series, which hangs on the dining room wall.
If you buy a painting, you just put it on the wall and leave it there.
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His office in Bellevue, Wash. even has a fossil crocodile from Germany, embedded in the stone in which it was preserved, hanging on the wall instead of a painting.
On his wall hung a painting of the huge conical brick structure that still stands at the west of the city, built by the British to store rice after a devastating famine in the 1770s.
In 2004, Banksy smuggled his painting into the Louvre, illicitly attaching it to the wall with double-sided tape.
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In a cute bit of installation wit, the "painting" isn't up on a wall, but instead rests backside out on two felt-covered wood blocks, as if the exhibition were still in preparation.
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With Ms. Orihara giving a subtly driven performance in the role originated by Graham, and formidable Ben Schultz as an insistent, menacing figure, "Errand" in its new, spare look now intriguingly suggests the rarefied world of a restored Egyptian wall painting.
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Visitors will approach Rembrandt's painting through the cathedral-like entrance hall, filled with jewel-toned stained glass and extravagant wall decorations, and the restored Gallery of Honor, home to the Rijksmuseum's collection of 17th century works.
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In the dining room I am working on, I plan to hang a single fantastic picture on one wall and smother the opposite wall with pictures a mix of Hugo Guinness paintings, the odd flea-market oil painting, a vintage poster and vintage sandpaper pictures I found in Paula Rubenstein's Manhattan shop.
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