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Edvard Munch's painting The Scream is among the world's most reproduced images. So when one of his original versions was stolen from Oslo's Munch Museum last August, along with his Madonna, the heist left art lovers as anguished as The Scream's subject. After closing for nine months, the museum reopened this summer with tighter security and a stirring new exhibit of works by the tormented Norwegian. "Munch by Himself" is billed as a survey of the artist's self-portraiture. But whether nailed to a cross in Golgotha (1900) or lying in a pool of blood...
When Edvard Munch's painting The Scream was stolen last year from the Munch Museum in Oslo, it was hard to know how much comfort to take from the fact that 10 years earlier, a different version of the picture--there are four--had been nabbed from another Norwegian museum. On the one hand, it was a comfort that that version was returned unharmed. On the other, nobody seems to have learned anything from the first theft. Museum security was still utterly insufficient, in part because gallery officials depended on the fantasy that no one would steal such a famous...
...jewelry and antiques were reported missing or stolen to the London-based Art Loss Register, whose database of stolen works is the largest in the world. When the stolen object is a rare masterpiece - such as Edvard Munch's The Scream, which was lifted from The Munch Museum in Oslo last year and is still missing, though three men have been arrested in connection with the crime - the theft grabs headlines. But hauls of large numbers of works are less common, says Alexandra Smith, the Register's operations director. Whenever possible, foundations like the Albizzini tend to keep such...
...muscles with sustained power. The track itself, a recently installed Rekortan surface, is as fast as a fine track should be, though it has no unique properties for generating speed. But the tight old stadium, with its narrow six-lane oval walled in by chanting crowds of passionately knowledgeable Oslo running fans, seems to elicit special heroics from competitors. The athletes feel, in the words of retired U.S. Runner Marty Liquori, who commented on the race for ABC-TV, as though they are being pushed along "in a tunnel of sound." No fewer than 42 world records had been...
...would reign among the world's milers. Many experts, including Cram in his quiet, pleasant way, felt that the outcome was virtually certain. One possible question was Cram's occasionally tender left calf, which had been tweaking him after the Nice race. But in the final days before Oslo, the leg felt comfortable and strong, and Cram seemed unworried about any possible reinjury. His victory plan was a simple one: start fast and run Coe into the ground...