A Break-In And A Breakthrough

Breaking into the art world gets tougher all the time. Frustrated by the difficulty of getting his work shown, New York artist Paul Rebhan sneaked one of his paintings into the Museum of Modem Art last week and-armed with double-sided tape and a phony placard reading "Donated by Mr. and Mrs. Donald Trump"-hung the work on a wall. It stayed there, not far from a work by jasper Johns, for two days until the black-and-white abstract attracted museum guards and curious crowds. "If it was getting that much attention, they should have left it," said Rebhan, 33. MoMA mailed the painting back, but Rebhan got the last laugh: dealers from as far as Japan have called about his work.