> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://hyperallergic.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Crimes of the Art - URL: https://hyperallergic.com/crimes-of-the-art-58/ - Published: 2016-04-12T23:09:43.000Z - Updated: 2025-11-24T15:58:25.000Z - Description: On this week’s art crime blotter: seven Andy Warhol prints went missing from a museum, two men were arrested as authorities recovered a stolen Edvard Munch, and a Russian cultural critic was murdered. - Author: Benjamin Sutton - Tags: News, Andy Warhol, Art Crime, Crimes of the Art, Edvard Munch, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:17 (2016, 2017, part 1) ![Andy Warhol's "Campbell's Soup Cans" prints, pictured before seven of them were stolen, at the Springfield Museum of Art (photo by @cinderele/Instagram)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2016/04/crimes-art-stolen-warhols.jpg) Andy Warhol’s ‘Campbell’s Soup Cans’ prints, pictured before seven of them were stolen from the Springfield Museum of Art (photo by @cinderele/Instagram) [*Crimes of the Art*](http://hyperallergic.com/tag/crimes-of-the-art/) *is a weekly survey of artless criminals’ cultural misdeeds. Crimes are rated on a highly subjective scale from one “Scream” emoji — the equivalent of a vandal tagging the exterior of a local history museum in a remote part of the US — to five “Scream” emojis — the equivalent of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist.* ## Warhol Soup Cans Disappear ![crimes-of-the-art-scream-3](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/02/crimes-of-the-art-scream-3.jpg) Seven of Andy Warhol’s *Campbell’s Soup Cans* (1968) prints were [stolen](http://www.news-leader.com/story/news/crime/2016/04/08/police-investigate-overnight-theft-art-museum/82794692/?ref=hyperallergic.com) off the walls of the Springfield Art Museum in Springfield, Missouri. The FBI is offering a $25,000 award for information that leads to their recovery; the complete set of 10 prints to which the seven stolen artworks belong is [estimated](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/12/fbi-offers-reward-after-andy-warhol-soup-can-paintings-stolen/?ref=hyperallergic.com) to be worth $500,000\. An FBI [release](http://www.sgfmuseum.org/DocumentCenter/View/299?ref=hyperallergic.com) indicates that the thieves left behind the prints of soup cans marked “Cream of Mushroom,” “Consommé (Beef),” and “Pepper Pot.” **Verdict:** The thieves have very picky taste in food art. ## Two Arrested as Stolen Munch Lithograph Is Recovered ![crimes-of-the-art-scream-3](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/02/crimes-of-the-art-scream-3.jpg) Two men were [arrested](http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/apr/06/norway-oslo-police-arrest-two-in-connection-with-edvard-munch-historien-theft?ref=hyperallergic.com) in Oslo in connection with the 2009 theft of the hand-colored Edvard Munch lithograph “Historien” (History, 1914), which was recovered by Norwegian police. The men are suspected of handling stolen goods, though they are not accused of carrying out the theft of the 2 million kroner (\~$306,000) artwork. **Verdict:** What a relief for those who feared “History” was history! ## Russian Culture Critic Killed ![crimes-of-the-art-scream-4](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/02/crimes-of-the-art-scream-4.jpg) Dmitry Tsilikin, a 54-year-old Russian art and culture critic who had written for *Vogue*, *Elle*, and *Kommersant*, among other publications, was found [stabbed to death](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35942210?ref=hyperallergic.com) in his St. Petersburg apartment. Per the [codes](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/07/opinion/the-art-of-reading-russian-obituaries.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) of Russian obituary writing, an act of extreme state repression seems unlikely. **Verdict:** This is another tragic reminder, as if one were needed, of how vulnerable Russian journalists are. ## Hate Trumps Dialogue in Campus Immigration Demonstration ![crimes-of-the-art-scream-3](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/02/crimes-of-the-art-scream-3.jpg) A wall that was erected on the Loyola Marymount University campus as part of a “No Human Being Is Illegal” demonstration, and covered with messages like “stop deportations” and “Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner,” was [defaced](http://www.latimes.com/local/education/higher-ed/la-me-ln-lmu-graffiti-20160406-story.html?ref=hyperallergic.com). One section was spray-painted over to read “Deport all illegals,” while another was simply scrawled with the word “Trump.” **Verdict:** A glimpse of what the US will look like under President Donald Trump.