"Scream" stolen!

[sr71blackbird]

Armed men stormed into an art museum Sunday, threatened staff at gunpoint and stole Edvard Munch's famous paintings "The Scream" and "Madonna" before the eyes of stunned
museum-goers.


Scream story (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040822/ap_on_en_ot/norway_museum_theft&cid=499&ncid=716) I wonder how many other museaums dont really have any kind of protection for famous paintings?

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[Mike Teacher]

What happens to famous paintings in museums should be a book. Maybe it is.

One guy who stole the Mona Lisa just cut the sucker right out of the frame and that was it. A year or so ago, I forget where, but some Big european museum got hit real hard; they used the second story and had the run of the place, a place I think was boastful of its ultra-security.

Then there are the fakes, and this is getting to be a big issue. There are some, quite a few famous paintings, or, more often, painting by very famous artists, and some argue: Nope, not the artist. An excellent, forgery, or perhaps a student of the painter...

And the modern forgers are amazing. They find the old canvases, the old pigments, and they're off, making a Renoir or whatever.

And then I love it when some art is dosplayed for like a week in an exhibit, then someone who Knows comes around and says, 'Umm.. folks, this is Upside Down.'

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[TheMojoPin]

When I saw most of the European art museums, it was a good 13-14 years ago, but even then, only the REALLY "big" paintings like the Mona Lisa had any kind of protection around it that actually prevented someone from just reaching out and grabbing the thing. The rest most seemed to just rely on a simple velvet rope...though most of the major museums DID have armed guards in and around nearly every corner.

For the record, the Mona Lisa is really, REALLY small.

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