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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sight that greeted the curators of Milan's Gallery of Modern Art one morning last week looked like another ho-hum piece of conceptual art: 28 picture frames lying flat on the parquet floor. In fact, it was another Italian spe cialita della casa-art theft. In the hours before dawn, thieves had broken in through a window and spirited off about $2.3 million worth of paintings left to the museum in 1956 by Sicilian Industrialist Carlo Grassi. The haul included a Cezanne, a Bonnard, a Renoir, a Vuillard, a Van Gogh, a Gauguin, a Millet and a brace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Quis Custodief? | 3/3/1975 | See Source »

...machine of Mayor Richard Daley. When Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were killed in a Chicago shootout two years ago, the dailies at first did not question the official version: that the Panthers fired first and brought the fatal fusillade on themselves. But the Review devoted a spe- cial 16-page issue to the incident and raised many doubts, which now seem amply justified; last summer a grand jury indicted city officials for obstructing justice in covering up what it decided was an unprovoked case of police overkill. The November issue of the Review included a report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Journalism's In-House Critics | 12/6/1971 | See Source »

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