Albertina Museum not happy with Beyonce Knowles
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Just imagine, a small Vienna art gallery is told to expect a very important visitor: pop star Beyoncé is coming to the museum and wants a tour. Then someone looking very much like Ms. Knowles shows up... but it's not really her.
Sounds like something they did in one of the Oceans movie with Julia Roberts? Well yes actually it does, but this time it happens in real life and with Beyonce.
An Austrian radio station admits now they punked the Albertina museum, sending a double for the tour and pulling a fast one on the gallery, The Guardian reports. The Albertina's director was even photographed posing with the impostor and showing her the exhibition, which includes one of the world's largest collections of graphic art.
Why they would want to do this I have no idea. In my opinion it's kinda lame but they must be really bored.
I'm all about the pranking but seriously think of it this way, You pranked some old dude at the museum. Do you really think he knows who the hell Beyonce is or really knows what she looks like? I don't think it would be that hard to prank him. He is probably too busy listening to Yanni live at the Acropolis.
Anyway the real Beyoncé was in town, seen in the H&M on the Kärntner Strasse shopping street, where she signed autographs.
"We consider it an absolute cheek," said a museum spokeswoman, Verena Dahlitz. "We had a grain of doubt that it might have been her because she avoided eye contact with the director and she acted a little bit strangely."
Beyonce has made no statement on if she will be making a real tour to the museum. It is rumored she just doesn't have the time because she is too busy playing Rhythm Heaven for the Nintendo DS.
Sounds like something they did in one of the Oceans movie with Julia Roberts? Well yes actually it does, but this time it happens in real life and with Beyonce.
An Austrian radio station admits now they punked the Albertina museum, sending a double for the tour and pulling a fast one on the gallery, The Guardian reports. The Albertina's director was even photographed posing with the impostor and showing her the exhibition, which includes one of the world's largest collections of graphic art.
Why they would want to do this I have no idea. In my opinion it's kinda lame but they must be really bored.
I'm all about the pranking but seriously think of it this way, You pranked some old dude at the museum. Do you really think he knows who the hell Beyonce is or really knows what she looks like? I don't think it would be that hard to prank him. He is probably too busy listening to Yanni live at the Acropolis.
Anyway the real Beyoncé was in town, seen in the H&M on the Kärntner Strasse shopping street, where she signed autographs.
"We consider it an absolute cheek," said a museum spokeswoman, Verena Dahlitz. "We had a grain of doubt that it might have been her because she avoided eye contact with the director and she acted a little bit strangely."
Beyonce has made no statement on if she will be making a real tour to the museum. It is rumored she just doesn't have the time because she is too busy playing Rhythm Heaven for the Nintendo DS.