Shia LaBeouf’s exhibit that lambasted President Donald Trump has been shut down because it had turned into “a flashpoint for violence”.
The piece of performance art encouraged the public to say “He will not divide us” into a camera mounted outside the Museum of the Moving Image in New York.
Shia LaBeouf was arrested after a fracas at the site, which police began manning round the clock.
The Transformers star criticized the museum’s decision to shut down the exhibit.
On Twitter, Shia LaBeouf posted an image of the live stream, which now reads: “The museum has abandoned us.”
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He co-founded the project, which was launched on the day President Trump was inaugurated, on January 20, with artists Luke Turner and Nastja Ronkko.
The live-stream ran for 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and the artists had planned to maintain it throughout Donald Trump’s presidency.
However, in the early hours of January 26, Shia LaBeouf was charged with assault and harassment after a confrontation with a man that was broadcast on the live-stream.
The New York Daily News reported that a number of white supremacists turned up at the site over the past three weeks, including one apparently wearing a Nazi hat.
In a statement, the museum said the atmosphere at the exhibit, named HEWILLNOTDIVIDE.US, “deteriorated markedly” after Shia LaBeouf’s arrest.
There had been “dozens of threats of violence and numerous arrests” and it had become “a flashpoint for violence”, the statement added.
The museum said: “Until public safety concerns overrode the intent of the installation, HEWILLNOTDIVIDE.US generated an important conversation allowing interaction among people from many backgrounds and with different viewpoints.”
A statement on the exhibit’s website says: “On February 10, 2017, the Museum of the Moving Image abandoned the project. The artists, however, have not.”
Shia LaBeouf has livestreamed himself watching his performance on the big screen and six other strange moments.
The actor has invited everyone to watch the livestream via digital-art website NewHive.
Shia LaBeouf will be watching his blockbusters including Transformers, Indiana Jones, Holes, Surf’s Up, Disturbia and many more for three days.
The Hollywood star has also invited New Yorkers to come and join him for free at the city’s Angelika Film Center.
With the camera focused on just his face, viewers can spend 72 hours staring at Shia LaBeouf staring at something else.
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The actor even took a break to thank fans.
He wrote on a nearby wall: “Thank you so much. I am aware of how crazy this whole thing is – thank you for your faith.”
Shia LaBeouf intensely encourages viewers to not “let their dreams be dreams”. He manages, in just over a minute, to rant, contort, shout, double over, and pull invisible bird seed out of his palm.
This led many on the internet to go meme crazy making something strange.
Shia LaBeouf has been arrested and charged with public intoxication in Austin, Texas police say.
Police arrested the star on Friday night on Sixth Street in Austin’s entertainment district.
Shia LaBeouf has had numerous brushes with the law throughout his career.
Witnesses said Shia LaBeouf initially caused a disturbance on October 9 after being refused a drink at a bar, and later jaywalked in front of police.
Officers are reported to have subdued Shia LaBeouf and put him in handcuffs before arresting him, TMZ reported.
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Jail records quoted by the AP say that Shia LaBeouf spent Friday night in the Travis County Jail and has now been released.
In September 2014, Shia LaBeouf pleaded guilty to a charge of disorderly conduct over his disruption of a Broadway performance of Cabaret.
The actor was also arrested after a fight in a bar in Los Angeles in 2011, although he was later released without charge.
Shortly before that arrest, a publicist for Shia LaBeouf said that he was receiving treatment for alcoholism.
There have also been a series of instances where Shia LaBeouf is said to have behaved erratically in public – on one occasion appearing on the red carpet with a paper bag on his head, on which was written: “I am not famous anymore.”
The actor found fame at age 14 as the star of the Disney series Even Stevens and has also starred in three Transformers movies.
Shia LaBeouf’s movies include Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.
Shia LaBeouf has pleaded guilty to a charge of disorderly conduct over his disruption of a Broadway performance of Cabaret.
Under the terms of the plea, Shia LaBeouf, 28, will avoid jail or probation.
However, he must complete a treatment program, attend all court appearances and avoid arrest for six months.
Shia LaBeouf was arrested in June after smoking, shouting at actors and using abusive language as he was removed from the audience at a Cabaret performance.
According to court documents, he yelled, “do you know who I am?” at security guards at New York’s Studio 54 theatre. Shia LaBeouf later spat at an officer’s feet at a nearby police station.
Shia LaBeouf has pleaded guilty to a charge of disorderly conduct over his disruption of a Broadway performance of Cabaret (photo AP)
Shortly after the arrest, a publicist for Shia LaBeouf said the actor had begun receiving treatment for alcoholism.
In New York on Wednesday, Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Diana Boyar asked: “Are you pleading guilty because you are guilty?”
“Yes, your honor,” Shia LaBeouf said.
The judge ordered him to complete a three-month course of treatment. The actor made no comment as he left court.
Shia LaBeouf’s arrest at the Broadway revival of Cabaret, starring Alan Cumming and Michelle Williams, followed a series of instances where he had behaved erratically in public.
He walked out of a news conference for Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac at the Berlin Film Festival in February.
Shia LaBeouf later appeared on the red carpet with a paper bag on his head, on which was written: “I am not famous anymore.”
Shia LaBeouf has voluntarily asked for outpatient care for his alcohol addiction, his spokeswoman, Melissa Kates, confirmed.
Last week LaBeouf was accused of disturbing a performance of the musical Cabaret inside New York’s Studio 54.
Shia LaBeouf has voluntarily asked for outpatient care for his alcohol addiction
The actor was charged with disorderly conduct and harassment after police said he used obscene language and became aggressive when he was asked to leave the venue.
Shia LaBeouf, 28, did not enter a plea to the New York charges when he was arraigned last week.
They are all misdemeanors or violations, so if convicted he would face little or no jail time.
“He understands that these recent actions are a symptom of a larger health problem and he has taken the first of many necessary steps towards recovery,” said Melissa Kates.
Shia LaBeouf has previously starred alongside Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, as well as taking a leading role in Michael Bay’s Transformers franchise.
Shia LaBeouf has been arrested at a performance of the musical Cabaret in New York.
Shia LaBeouf, 28, was charged with disorderly conduct and criminal trespass following a disturbance at New York’s Studio 54 theater on Thursday.
The actor was escorted out of the theatre and taken into custody by New York police after refusing to go when asked to do so by security guards.
A police spokesman said: “The incident occurred at Studio 54 during Cabaret at around 9pm [ET]. He was acting disorderly, yelling and being loud, and is currently being held at the Midtown North police station.”
Shia LaBeouf was charged with disorderly conduct and criminal trespass following a disturbance at New York’s Studio 54 theater (photo Getty Images)
“He will be taken to jail tonight and will then have to appear in court.”
Broadway songwriter Benj Pasek tweeted that he saw Shia LaBeouf “in handcuffs in tears surrounded by 6 police officers outside of CABARET the musical”.
“He was being rather difficult and combative, verbally… to the point where security guards asked him to please leave the premises and he refused,” NYPD’s George Tsourovakas said.
“Police were called and he was detained and arrested.”
Shia LaBeouf – whose films include Transformers, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps – walked out of a news conference for Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac at the Berlin Film Festival in February.
He later appeared on the red carpet with a paper bag on his head, on which was written: “I am not famous anymore.”
A month previously the actor had tweeted that he was quitting “public life”.
“In light of the recent attacks against my artistic integrity, I am retiring from all public life,” Shia LaBeouf wrote in January.
The latest incident comes ahead of the release of Transformers: Age of Extinction, the first in the Michael Bay robot series not to star Shia LaBeouf.
Shia LaBeouf has walked out of a news conference for director Lars von Trier’s new film Nymphomaniac at the Berlin Film Festival.
Shia LaBeouf, 27, left after 10 minutes, quoting footballer Eric Cantona’s famous 1995 line: “When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.”
The actor later appeared on the red carpet wearing a paper bag on his head.
Written on the paper bag were the words: “I am not famous anymore.”
Shia LaBeouf appeared on the Berlin Film Festival red carpet wearing a paper bag on his head
LaBeouf had walked out of the news conference after being asked about the film’s explicit s** scenes.
His parting line was taken from a cryptic quote Eric Cantona delivered after he had caused a furor by kicking a fan in the crowd while playing for Manchester United.
Shia LaBeouf is known for films including Transformers, Wall Street II, and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
The film’s stars Christian Slater and Uma Thurman later laughed about their co-star’s comments, joking that the script contained a lot of sardines.
Lars von Trier missed the news conference but did turn up for an earlier photocall wearing a T-shirt bearing the words “Persona non grata” alongside the gold leaf logo of the Cannes Film Festival.
That was a reference to the divisive director’s expulsion from Cannes three years ago after he suggested in a news conference that he sympathized with Adolf Hitler.
Lars von Trier no longer takes part in such news conferences but the incident did not deter him from arriving in Berlin to promote his film.
The two-and-a-half hour NymphomaniacVolume I “premiered to cheers” and “went down a storm at an afternoon press preview on Sunday, the AFP news agency reported.
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