Gold foetus sculpture stolen

An £8,000 gold-plated cast of an illegally aborted foetus has been stolen from a London gallery. Two thieves smashed into the Orel Art UK gallery in Victoria in what is thought to be a pro-life protest. If Jesus Had Been An Abortion How Happy Would We Be by American artist Stephen J Shanabrook is a bronze cast of a foetus from the Sixties, plated in 24-carat gold. Gallery owner Julian Farrow said no other exhibits were touched: “It will be [...]

Edvard Munch artwork stolen in Norway

OSLO — Thieves stole a valuable artwork by Edvard Munch from an Oslo art dealer in the latest of a string of art heists targeting work by the famous Norwegian expressionist, police said Friday. One or more thieves stole “Historien” — or “History” — from Nyborgs Kunst in downtown Oslo after smashing one of the dealership’s windows with a rock, police spokeswoman Unni Groendal said. The hand-colored lithograph, printed in 1914, is worth “in the millions” of kroner (hundreds of [...]