Tuesday, February 12, 2008

"As in all cases involving the theft of well-known artworks, the mystery is what the thieves intended to do with the paintings"

The New York Sun's Kate Taylor has more on this weekend's major art theft from a Zurich museum. The Art Loss Register's Chris Marinello tells her, "If they try to unload these, we will find them."

Ed Winkleman applies Occam's Razor: "Stealing artwork this famous strikes me as evidence of stupidity .... In this instance, I suspect the thieves saw an easy heist and didn't think much past that point. This deficiency will hopefully add to the swiftness with which they are caught."