NEWS: Holla! Munch's Scream Recovered

CULTURE: Holla! Munch's Scream Recovered

A treasure in the worlds of art history and dorm room decoration, Edvard Munch's famous 1893 painting The Scream has been recovered, after being stolen from the Munch Museum in Oslo in 2004.


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Three people were found guilty of the crime earlier this year, but Norwegian police claim the convicted men did not offer up any information leading to the discovery of both The Scream and Madonna.

The only question that remains now is what the chief of Oslo police is going to do with 2 million M&M's...

Me too! At least they took care of it.

I'd be willing to take it off their hands for them. You know, "hold on to them" until they figure out what to do with them. Plus they would look nice on someone else's wall because I'd charge millions to other people to "hold on to them" for me.

that's fantastic. i had heard somewhere that they had been destroyed. i'm glad to see that's not the case.

i was so terrified this was gone forever

That's wonderful! I can't believe it! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

(Yeah, it's not great, but I only had 5 minutes to spare)

Oh, I'm so happy about this!!

nice.

I really believed someone had destroyed it. It's nice to see good news for a change.

wow, i've never seen
that beautiful paiting. now
i want to steal it!

I'm glad to see they got it back. Hopefully, it won't get stolen AGAIN. Art thieves have a major boner for "The Scream". I actually read a book a couple of months ago about one of the previous "Scream" thefts, when it got pinched in 1994 during the Winter Olympics. Its called The Rescue Artist by Edward Dolnick, and its a really good book. So good I just had to jump in this thread and plug it.

Yeah, that's really the first thing I noticed about it just now - how the face seems so detailed and marvelous, and the progress to the blurry generalities.

I'm glad it is safe. I've never seen it before, but I think it just became one of my favorite pieces of art...

glad they got it back. I also favour Madonna over the scream. it's been my favourite painting for a while now.

On the other hand, munch's cries of anguish are still on the loose.

I actually felt like crying when I heard that it had been destroyed. I actually think I may have cried

Im so happy that it wasnt, and that both works have been recovered.

Yes, Im a huge ark geek, and yes Im serious about the crying thing

I just worried because it is painted on corrugated cardboard and could be easily damaged.