Get moderately good at painting. Post your work online under a pseudonym. Fake your own death, or rather the death of your pseudonymous self, in a tragic and dramatic fashion. Sell your work at an elevated price.

• Identify someone else who is good at painting.
• Purchase the bulk of their work.
• Hey, look over there. A distraction!
• Sell the work at an elevated price.

I don't thin that faking a death in a tragic and dramatic fashion is a good idea. The police investigates deaths that are in tragic and dramtic fashion.

There are probably much better publicity stunts. The most straightforward that comes to my mind would be having sex in the MoMA. You'll need a person to fill film it for youtube.

Afterwards I think all the art folk will talk about the issue.

How well do you expect this to work? Non-anecdotal evidence in support?