Arts Briefs

Arts on the West Campus Plaza

Leave your mark (in chalk) on the new West Campus Plaza. Draw a picture, make a pattern or sign your name somewhere on the plaza sidewalk at an ongoing event today, sponsored by the Nasher Student Advisory Board.

Designs will be photographed by student photographer Anna Wu, a senior, and incorporated into a future art exhibit. Stop by at any time between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.

"The Scream"

On August 31, 2006, Norwegian police announced they had recovered Edvard Munch's long-lost masterpiece, "The Scream".

The painting was stolen in 2004 from the Munch Museum in Oslo, when two masked robbers frightened throngs of tourists by walking in the museum and ripping the painting--along with Munch's "Madonna"--from the museum's walls.

"Out of consideration of police working methods, it will be hard to give details of how the operation was carried out," Norwegian police said, according to a CNN report.

There was no Ocean's 11 (or 12) style mystery to be solved, so how did it take the police so long to find the painting? Where could it have been for the past 2 years? recess can only imagine.