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Five Famous Paintings Swiped in Paris Museum HeistPosted on May 20, 2010
Somehow, a lone art bandit—or a band of bandits—managed to pull off an impressive five-finger-discount maneuver at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris on Wednesday night, making off with five masterpieces worth a grand total of close to 100 million euros. Sacré bleu! —KA
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By NYCartist, May 21, 2010 at 9:58 am Link to this comment
I leave it to others to make the connection between the baseball owners’ monopoly/business (elsewhere on TD homepage) and the business of art.
Report thisBy NYCartist, May 21, 2010 at 9:57 am Link to this comment
My art is only in one museum’s archives, and in images or multiples. I know people who have tried to sneak their art into the MoMA in NYC, by leaving it hanging in the Ladies Room. Lots of us would lend our art to various museums ....
One anecdote: In the mid70s, the Brooklyn Museum of Art finally agreed to a show by Women in the Arts, a NYC women’s art group, large group. We wanted an “open show” (no jurying), but the museum director insisted. So we looked at each other’s work and said, “OK” and no one was excluded. It was a great show of a couple of hundred, plus pieces of work.
Report this(Women are still underrepresented in museums and galleries.)
By WriterOnTheStorm, May 21, 2010 at 8:54 am Link to this comment
Is anybody else out there as surprised as I am at how easy and simple these art
thefts appear to be? I’m waiting for the Thomas Crown art theft masterpiece, and
all we ever get is malfunctioning alarms, or crude daylight robberies at gunpoint.
Where’s the artistry in that?
I guess all the smart thieves know the real unguarded treasures are on Wall Street.
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