--- title: IKEA Painting Displayed at Dutch Art Museum for Prank: Video description: Dutch pranksters LifeHunters put a painting from IKEA on display at the Museum Arnhem in the Netherlands said it was by artist Ike Andrews canonical: https://time.com/3750805/ikea-painting-dutch-art-museum/ author: Olivia B. 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Waxman Staff Writer Mar 19, 2015 3:44 PM UTC The Dutch team of Internet pranksters “LifeHunters” put a painting from IKEA on display at the Museum Arnhem in the Netherlands and asked art aficionados for their opinion of the work by “Ike Andrews”—a surreal piece that shows a spider mounting a whale. Visitors described the artist as a man who can “put all of his emotions” in a painting. 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