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“The story of art, Breitwieser says, is a story of stealing. Egyptian papyri from the early written age decry the menace of tomb raiders. The Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II, in 586 BC, hauled off from Jerusalem the Ark of the Covenant. The Persians plundered the Babylonians, the Greeks raided the Persians, the Romans robbed the Greeks.”
— Apr 30, 2026 10:26PM
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“I know you’re not an ordinary thief,” the detective says. “You’re a collector too, and that’s gratifying.”
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“Permanently ending nearly all museum crime would be easy: lock the works in vaults, and hire armed guards. Of course this would also mean the end of museums. They’d now be called banks.”
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“Have they come explicitly to steal? No, Breitwiser will say, about this and every theft. They’ve arrived only to look. But this is just a psychological trick, he admits, so they feel less pressure walking in and nerves won’t give them away.”
— Apr 29, 2026 11:15PM
