Nude Performers Disrupt Rome's Trevi Fountain and MET Gala

A wave of nude performances has swept through international entertainment and art venues. In May, Spanish performer Adrián Pino Olivera, 29, immersed himself naked in Rome's Trevi Fountain, calling it an "hymn to beauty." He had previously stripped at the Uffizi and Louvre. Days later, on May 3, Fyodor Pavlov-Andreevich was carried in a transparent box onto the red carpet of the MET Gala in New York, removed by security. He claimed this was the fifth action of his project "The Foundling," previously staged at the Venice Biennale and São Paulo Biennial. In Melbourne, two masked activists were caught graffitiing a train. In Florida, a naked man stole a swan sculpture worth $25,000 and fled in a pickup. The article questions whether these acts are coincidences, social media exhibitionism, or liberatory gestures.