Art heists

and unsolved thefts have always fascinated me. At the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, empty picture frames remind visitors that $500 million worth of stolen art hasn’t been recovered. In Norway, two versions of Munch’s The Scream were stolen and recovered ten years apart. And just this week I read an article in The New Yorker about an incredible art heist in Paris, pulled off by a burglar called Spiderman who’s known for his fancy taste.

When I travel, something always catches my eye and makes me wonder what it would be like to be a master thief. How would I sneak off with something outlandish, like a running Tiffany glass fountain, or something downright irrational, like one the New York Public Library’s famous lions?? Though I’d never actually steal anything, I like the challenge of the brain game and am inspired by classics like From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler and characters like Carmen Sandiego. If Carmen can steal all the snow from Mount Fuji, surely I can devise a way to swipe a gargoyle from Notre Dame Cathedral!

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