Picking a nit here: this is the second time "The Scream" was stolen, but
only sort of.  A different version of it was stolen last time, from a
different museum.   According to the New York Times, the robbers were
armed - and I for one would not expect anyone on my security staff to take a
bullet for a painting.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/23/international/europe/23scream.html

People keep saying the picture was only hanging on a wire, as though this
was insufficient - does everybody but me bolt their paintings to the wall
with security hangers? Really?  We have some pictures with extra hardware
but a lot of the bigger things are hanging on a nail on d-rings or wire.
I'm curious about this as well.


Jill R. Chancey, Curator
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art
Laurel, MS 39440
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(phone) 601-649-6374
(fax) 601-428-8601

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