Given the circumstances, it probably should have been...
But then again, this has a happy ending. The painting was returned undamaged, nobody's hurt. Cool read.
Although you could argue the law is not the best arbiter of mortality.
Functioning societies need every rule and law tested, and retested continually for suitability.
Compared to growing psychedelic mushrooms, I don't think so.
Also artworks can still be enjoyed post-theft through replicas etc.
And if the artwork is returned, as in this case, it's just a big win all round. Creating a new performance artwork in the process.
Why bother with measures such as alarms and security cameras when you have the Super Secret Screws!
Just the other day, I was confronted with a security screw that instead of having 4 flutes on it (Phillips head), it had 3. I just drilled it out.
https://www.ifixit.com/products/mako-driver-kit-64-precision...
Kinda pricey, but well worth it.
> In 1911, Picasso and his contemporary Guillaume Apollinaire were both suspects in the Mona Lisa theft
> but were cleared of any association with the crime
being dead is quite a good alibi
Maybe I'm misreading either TFA or your comment, but both Picasso and Apollinaire were alive in 1911?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Apollinaire
Some more details from the Apollinaire wikipedia page:
> On 7 September 1911, police arrested and jailed Apollinaire on suspicion of aiding and abetting the theft of the Mona Lisa and a number of Egyptian statuettes from the Louvre, but released him a week later. The theft of the statues had been committed in 1907 by a former secretary of Apollinaire, Honoré Joseph Géry Pieret, who had recently returned one of the stolen statues to the French newspaper the Paris-Journal. Apollinaire implicated his friend Picasso, who had bought Iberian statues from Pieret, and who was also brought in for questioning in the theft of the Mona Lisa, but he was also exonerated. In fact, the theft of the Mona Lisa was perpetrated by Vincenzo Peruggia, an Italian house painter who acted alone and was only caught two years later when he tried to sell the painting in Florence.
“Chilean Australian artist Juan Davila painted a work titled Picasso Theft and offered to donate it to the National Gallery of Victoria in place of the stolen painting. Davila wrote that "mine is a real one".[25] Davila's Picasso Theft was exhibited in the Sydney Avago Gallery, and then itself was stolen.”
nomilk•2mo ago
In both cases, the thieves unscrewed the painting and took it. Feels a bit over the top to call it an homage, let alone an ironic one.
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https://abcnews.go.com/International/password-louvres-video-...
hau•2mo ago
>2014 cybersecurity audit performed by the French Cybersecurity Agency (ANSSI) at the museum's request