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...month FBI search for 5000 rare coins stolen from the Fogg Museum paid off this week, as FBI agents closed in on nine suspects and recovered half of the missing coins...
...lone gunman knocked on the door of the Fogg and told the night watchman that he was Mr. Ryan and had come to pick up his package. When the watchman opened the door, the gunman and several accomplices forced their way in and used the watchman's keys to open the display cases for the coins...
...with a package walked into the Fogg one afternoon, and asked to leave a package for a Mr. Ryan with the guard...
...them? Why do they collect--as an investment, out of love of art, because of avarice or noblesse oblige? All of these questions are raised by the exhibit and nowhere are they answered. The lavish and no doubt expensive catalogue merely reproduces in photographs the objects displayed in the Fogg's galleries. Why? For posterity's sake? Posterity would have been far better served if some record had been made of the attitudes and motives that prompted these women to collect works of art. We might learn much about how cultural values and standards are made if we knew more...
...Richardson is still architecting and Radcliffe alumnae are still collecting at the Fogg. Not to be outdone, Diebold Schilling is still chronicling at the Busch-Reisinger...