22nd October 2012

The Romantic Myth of the Art Thief, by AHA alum Charlie Whelton

  Last week, the Kunsthal museum in Rotterdam fell victim to a significant heist, when seven paintings were stolen, including Pablo Picasso’s Harlequin Head and Claude Monet’s Waterloo Bridge, London and Charing Cross Bridge, London. The art thief holds a peculiar place in the...

9th October 2012

What Drives People To Deface Art? AHA alum Charlie Whelton discusses.

  On Sunday afternoon, Mark Rothko’s Black on Maroon joined the long and varied list of artworks that have been vandalised, when Vladimir Umanets wrote on the mural with black paint. The list of defaced works includes such seminal pieces as the Mona Lisa...