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...have been an "insurance theft," where the criminals hope to make their money by bargaining with the museum's insurance company for a cash fraction of the value. That might sound hopeful, except that there is no insurance company to bargain with. The Gardner Museum -- like many other U.S. museums -- carries damage insurance but no theft coverage on its collection. To do so in the context of today's art prices, a spokesman explained, could cost some $3 million a year; the museum's total operating budget is only $2.8 million...
...goes, however, a once horrified supervisor begins to be intrigued by her willful residence in a world of myth and melodrama and soon joins in exotic games -- such as acting out the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, except for the fatal bits. Lettice and her friend strive for what all history- minded tourists seek, the moment when one senses this is what it must have felt like...
...world. One can hardly get enough of late Monet, which is why the exhibition currently on view at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, "Monet in the '90s: The Series Paintings," is so rewarding. It samples all his series in depth -- notably grainstacks, Rouen Cathedral, Japanese bridges, poplars -- except the Water Lilies, which come after 1900 anyhow...
FIRST it was Pepsi, then Billy Joel. Now, McDonald's and the corporate practices of Donald Trump have crossed the Iron Curtain. Moscow may resemble the U.S. faster than we expected--except it will look more like Wall Street than Washington...
Howell would not comment in detail on the changes, except to say that there have been no final decisions...