Someone's in the Kitchen with Mary

Detroit, 1972.

Downstairs, the old man with three teeth is yelling.
Being upstairs is sometimes no better than being downstairs.
He and his son are arguing again. He don't speak English
too good. By nine, his beer has been guzzled, becoming
an authority of his own. Meaningless words fly back and
forth. Reason is replaced by loudness. His life belongs
to the kitchen table he sits at, night after night.

When he was twenty-two, he must have thought
of more than a kitchen table and white T-shirts.
Didn't his youthful dreams search for much more?
Or did he never sleep, only to lie awake, staring
into the blackness, never dreaming.

- Now showing at ArtWorks the month of November.

Art Heist!

Sunday, 22 August 2004
Scream stolen from Norway museum!

Armed robbers have stolen the iconic Edvard Munch painting, The Scream, from the Munch Museum in Norway. Two masked thieves pulled the work and another painting, Madonna, off the wall as stunned visitors watched on Sunday. One robber threatened staff with a gun before the pair escaped in a waiting car, a museum officer told the BBC.

Saturday, November 2, 2008
Cat Watching Bird stolen from applegate Art Studio!

Sometime Friday night the painting on wood was taken from its metal stand. The painting had been hanging there, day and night, for almost a year. But alas, finally an art connoisseur, must have spotted this landmark painting and decided they had to have it for their own personal collection. It had been viciously ripped from the two shower curtain hooks it had been hanging on, never having a chance.

The Scream, now Cat Watching Bird. What has it come to?

Is great art no longer safe in our world anymore?