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Reyn
 
Reply Wed 3 Aug, 2005 11:20 pm
Thieves thought they took 3 paintings from Oslo hotel - they were photocopies
at 4:59 on August 3, 2005, EST.

OSLO, Norway (AP) - Two masked thieves stormed into an Oslo hotel Wednesday and stole what they thought were Edvard Munch paintings.

But police said they were only photocopies. The Hotel Continental, which has a large art collection, had replaced its original Munch paintings with photocopies following the theft of two Munch masterpieces from an Oslo museum last year, officials told news agency ANB. The two suspects fled in a car, which was found abandoned a few kilometres from the hotel, police said.

The photocopies, of the paintings Vampire, Self-portrait and Melancholy, were of little value, police said.

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rhythm synergy
 
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Reply Thu 4 Aug, 2005 12:36 pm
HAHAHHAHA! I can almost imagine those crooks looking at themselves dumbfounded!
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Reyn
 
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Reply Thu 4 Aug, 2005 06:24 pm
Probably did a "Homer" and went "doh"! Laughing
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JLNobody
 
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Reply Sun 14 Aug, 2005 02:23 pm
How delicious!!!.
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JLNobody
 
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Reply Sun 14 Aug, 2005 02:24 pm
I wonder if they had committed misdemeanors while attempting to commit felonies.
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benconservato
 
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Reply Sat 3 Sep, 2005 01:12 am
fabulous.
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JLNobody
 
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Reply Sat 3 Sep, 2005 02:22 pm
y
That's the only expression I've seen of Celestial Justice.
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Sat 3 Sep, 2005 02:40 pm
Or Celestial Jaundice.

I am wondering if we've finally found a use for Gliclees on Canvas....
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JLNobody
 
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Reply Sat 3 Sep, 2005 06:01 pm
Lol
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msolga
 
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Reply Sat 3 Sep, 2005 06:04 pm
Ya gotta laugh! Laughing
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barefootTia
 
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Reply Sat 3 Sep, 2005 06:12 pm
After the heist they probably went out and partied, spent lots of money, bought some fine new clothes, rented a limo and dreamt all that night about life's finest riches--and woke up to a nightmare. Ha ha!
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Reyn
 
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Reply Sat 3 Sep, 2005 06:19 pm
So, they actually ended up poorer than when they first started out! Justice, ya gotta love it! Laughing
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Merry Andrew
 
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Reply Mon 5 Sep, 2005 05:21 am
But, ya' know something? In a few years those photocopies will probably be worth some real money to an esoteric-minded collector, just like good fakes are worth money today even when it's candidly announced that they're fakes. Can't you just see a Daddy Warbucks type of millionaire pointing to the works hanging on the walls of his dining room or parlor and telling guests: "Yes, those are the famous replicas actualy stolen from that hotel back in '05." The very fact of their theft would give them cachet.
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barefootTia
 
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Reply Mon 5 Sep, 2005 06:03 am
That is so true Merry Andrew.
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JLNobody
 
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Reply Mon 5 Sep, 2005 05:33 pm
Great insight, Andrew. I cannot imagine it not turning out to be the case.
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Acquiunk
 
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Reply Mon 5 Sep, 2005 05:43 pm
But to get that cachet the thieves would have to be caught, prosecuted and the "fakes' returned to their rightful owner. It sounds like these guys are between a rock and a hard place.

Incidently there is a "painting" in the Hartford Anthenaeum in Hartford Connecticut that has value only because it was stolen. It is a conceptual piece with the words steal this printed on it. It was, and the Anthenaeum purchased the work with the documentation of its theft.
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Reyn
 
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Reply Mon 5 Sep, 2005 05:44 pm
It's a crazy world out there. What is one person's junk one day can become another person's collectible treasures down the road!
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Mon 5 Sep, 2005 05:55 pm
Osso looks fondly at her junk, estimating its potential...
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JLNobody
 
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Reply Mon 5 Sep, 2005 05:55 pm
It has been argued that a work of art is "art" because it is presented in an art venue, i.e., art museum, gallery or within a frame in a home. That means that if something is taken from an empty lot and presented in a gallery or museum as "readymade art" (found art), it IS, ipso facto, art. If that's accepted I wonder if, by that logic, a painting or statue taken from a museum and thrown into an empty lot thereby ceases to be art.
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Mon 5 Sep, 2005 06:03 pm
it's a lost art..



(boo!)
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