Tara Pippins’s Reviews > The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession > Status Update

The three conjoined panels of the apothecary shop… begin to separate and warp. A skilled professional restorer can gradually untwist wood and reconnect the panels.
Breitwieser tried to fix it himself… a method one curator calls “brutal”, he forces the panels into approximate position and seals them with SUPER GLUE!

Beauty, to be unpoetic but precise, is in the medial orbital-frontal cortex of the beholder

The work was displayed in the museum’s entry room, the most crowded spot”
Madeline was there; then she wasn’t
A work that had hung undisturbed in the museum for 138 years, since it had been given by a private donor so the painting could be seen by the public, had just vanished like a soap bubble into the air

27 - “coup de coeur” (a blow to the heart) for the art and Anne-Catherine

37 - fou de joie (crazy joy)

Quote “Aesthetics are higher than ethics.” - Oscar Wilde