greatest heists in art history

[tyboogie]

really cool little article


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3188431.stm


i love the last one

""Three paintings by Van Gogh, Picasso and Gauguin worth £4m were stolen from the Whitworth Gallery in Manchester after thieves evaded CCTV cameras, alarms and 24-hour rolling patrols.

But they were found the next day, slightly damaged and crammed into a tube behind a public toilet.

A note was attached to the paintings claiming the motive of the thieves was to highlight poor security at the gallery.""

[jrr]

why steal great art when you can fake it?
a while ago a dude use to go into strands and rip blank pages from really old books and come home and draw picasso-esk drawings on them and forge the signature. and sell them off as real. when the people with the thick glasses shot lazers at the paper and beamed light into it to determine the age , they found it's old enough to be made last century.

[Muttonhead]

Hehe. I think it's great that people still steal art. It seems like such an antiquated method of crime, but it is definitely the coolest.

You know you've made it as an influential artsist when people steal your paintings, alothough that usually doesn't happen till after you are dead.

-Muttonhead

[Tedsuo]

Originally posted by Muttonhead


You know you've made it as an influential artsist when people steal your paintings, alothough that usually doesn't happen till after you are dead.

-Muttonhead


Not these days! You only have to be around for a couple of years before people start sticking your stuff in their portfolios. :D

[feels]

Originally posted by Tedsuo



Not these days! You only have to be around for a couple of years before people start sticking your stuff in their portfolios. :D

Haha... Werd.