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...recent theft of three masterworks from the Ducal Palace in Urbino, Italy (see ART), stirred the rage of TIME Critic Robert Hughes. Born in Australia, Hughes left home to study painting and sculpture in Italy. While living in the Tuscany region in 1964-65, Hughes learned firsthand the wanton nature of art thieves when they made off with the head of a statue of St. Paul in a church he often visited. Hughes traced the head as far as a "respectable" art dealer in Basel, Switzerland, but it was never returned to the church. Such theft, in his view...
That afternoon the stricken minister scrambled out of a helicopter in the hill town of Urbino to visit the site of the worst art theft since World War II. Between midnight and 2 in the morning of Feb. 6, three paintings had been taken from Urbino's 15th century Ducal Palace. One was a portrait of an unknown noblewoman, nicknamed The Mute, by Raphael. The other two were by Piero della Francesca: The Flagellation and the Madonna of Senigallia...
...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...
...crucial bell that did not sound, however, was the museum's own. Although five guards were in the building during the theft, they had turned off the museum's electronic alarm system for fear it would disturb their sleep...
...tall talk with virtually no skepticism. He soon learned the dangers of reporting unconfirmed technical claims without any disclaimers. Last month the Dale bubble burst when the Dallas police issued a warrant for the arrest of Carmichael and her creative crew on charges of conspiracy to commit theft. They also filed charges accusing her of engaging in illegal deceptive trade practices. The National Observer reported these events in a sort of retraction in its Feb. 15 issue. The story conceded that Carmichael's car might "turn out to be only a dream," and one Washington-based editor, Lionel Linder...