A man stripped down to skimpy underwear and took a stroll through Moscow's State Tretyakov Gallery on Wednesday evening in what it called an "unsanctioned performance," the state-run RIA Novosti news agency reported. This was the third incident involving a visitor to one of Russia's leading art galleries in under a year. Video footage circulating on Russian social media showed a relatively young man with a shaven head and wearing a red G-string walking casually through the museum and stopping in front of a large painting.

The gallery said the performance was staged by modern artists who had left behind small artworks in its halls, RIA reported. No artworks or visitors had been threatened by the performance, the gallery added. The police were now searching for the unclothed performer, a source told the state-run TASS news agency.

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