This man is spending 2 days searching for a needle in a haystack — for art

This man is spending 2 days searching for a needle in a haystack — for art

Italian performance artist Sven Sachsalber is boldly torturing himself with the tedium of attempting to find a needle in a haystack — for art's sake.

Visitors to Paris' Palais de Tokyo can watch Sachsalber's potentially futile search for 48 hours, though the museum says it's possible that finding the needle will take longer.

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Samantha Rollins

Samantha Rollins is TheWeek.com's news editor. She has previously worked for The New York Times and TIME and is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.