Art Thieves GO CRAZY!

I don't understand. They had security cameras, but not aimed at the art itself? So they missed the whole crane-lifting-a-2-ton-sculpture part? That's pretty hilarious.

I thought the scrap thing was pretty far-fetched myself. Bronze is copper and tin, right? The value of tin would be pretty low, and I don't know how you'd seperate it from the big-money copper anyway.

The sculpture was in the external-workshop area for some reason I don't recall from the TV news, which may be something to do with the security cameras just catching a couple of snapshots of the lorry coming and going. Though when I think of the big Yorkshire Sculpture Park, with its large selection of large Moores, I don't recall any sign of cameras anywhere near most of the art.

Somebody's seen F for Fake, I see.

I don't want to belabor this point, but no... it's a fixed-width layout, with two colums of text where there need only be one, and the second column of text begins higher than the first. This is very wrong. It might work for a newspaper with one headline tying the two columns together, but anywhere on the web, it's just... wrong. I'm sorry I can't come up with a more clever word for "wrong."

the 2023 netflix documentary on VJERAN TOMIC: THE SPIDER-MAN OF PARIS is very watchable, almost entirely because of VT as he speaks directly to camera

(it also features dizzying body-cam footage of someone -- possibly him -- jumping around very high rooftops in a perilous manner, like parkour for fucking lunatics)

he's a croatian-french cat-burglar who began stealing fancy art bcz the paintings interested him, crowning his career so far with the five paintings daringly taken from the museum of modern art in paris (a whole story is attached to this and its aftermath but no spoilers)

heists breaking out all over (i watch one documentary… )

Thought this revive would be about today’s robbery at the Louvre! https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/19/europe/robbery-louvre-paris-france-museum-closure-intl

they got the idea from mark's revive

im the napoléon de crime

‪Oregon 🕎🎲‬
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Since none of the English news is giving god damn details I went digging into French sources

Napoleon and Empress's jewelry collection: a necklace, a brooch, a tiara, and others stole

Empress Eugenie crown was found outside damaged but at least they have it. The 140 caret diamond Regent is safe.

Just about to see Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind at the Renoir (aka Curzon Bloomsbury), an art heist film inspired by the 1972 robbery of the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts, in which two Gauguins, a Picasso, and a Rembrandt were stolen.

Thought that's what revival would be about.

genuinely thought this was a mark s post on bsky

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step 1: hire an elite team of international acrobats, engineers, and hackers
step 2: those guys are out of budget. find antoine and guillaume from secondary school
step 3: contract a high tech surveillance package and van. buy knock-out darts for the guards
step 4: too expensive. borrow a big ladder

When was the last big American art theft? Surely there’s been one more recent than the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist in 1990?

v chuffed to be mistaken for lauren, a great poster on bsky and elsewhere (the big ladder is indeed a hilarious detail)

(by contrast my spider-man guy sometimes used a GRAPPLING GUN -- tho not on his big moma-paris heist, where he just climbed thru a ground floor window)

Re: the Louvre, I actually felt relieved they stole jewelry instead of, say, a painting or sculpture. Yeah, there's "heritage" value, etc., but for some reason I couldn't give two shits about royal jewels being stolen.