An off duty security at the Seattle Art Museum named Amanda Mae was fired when she removed papers museum visitors had put on a work by Yoko Ono. It is a public participation piece entitled, "Painting to Hammer a Nail." After working for about a half hour, the museum's curator came into the gallery and told her to stop. She was fired the following day when she came in to work. The museum's spokeswoman, said, "The intent of the piece does not include taking things away, only adding things."
Amanda called her intervention, "Yoko Ono Excavation Survey" (Y.E.S.}.
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