Scream gallery improves security
53315
The Munch Museum in Oslo, where thieves stole The Scream last month, is to upgrade its security in the wake of the raid.
64306
Armed men stormed into an art museum Sunday, threatened staff at gunpoint and stole Edvard Munch&#39;s famous paintings &quot;The Scream&quot; and &quot;Madonna&quot; before the eyes of stunned museum-goers.
152636
OSLO, Norway -- Police are checking leads in the hunt for armed thieves who stole Edvard Munch&#39;s &quot;The Scream,&quot; as new details show the robbers were more professional than first thought.
473584
Armed robbers stole "The Scream" and another masterpiece by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch on Sunday in a bold daytime raid on an Oslo museum packed with terrified tourists.
627559
French authorities plan to boost security in museums and churches across the country after a spate of art thefts, the culture ministry said on Thursday.
123733
The Oslo gallery appeals to those who stole Edvard Munch's The Scream not to destroy it.
453227
For the second time in 10 years one of the most famous paintings in the world -- &quot;The Scream&quot; by Edvard Munch -- has been stolen from an art gallery in Oslo.
663482
ZURICH, Switzerland -- Three gunmen in ski masks and dark clothes burst into a museum just before closing time. After a quick run through the building, they hustled out the door and sped off with paintings by Cezanne, Degas, van Gogh and Monet valued at $163.2 million.
555769
LONDON - Alarms and cameras at Buckingham Palace worked well in detecting the breach of security by a man dressed in a Batman costume, but it was still too easy for him to get onto a balcony, a minister said Tuesday after the latest intrusion embarrassed officials guarding the royal residence.    Home Secretary David Blunkett also said that members of the public shouldn't be barred from approaching British landmarks...
356953
Police are combing the Norwegian capital looking for thieves who made off with Edvard Munch&#39;s famous painting The Scream. Witnesses say stunned museum-goers watched as two men armed with handguns and dressed
237639
Police are checking a flood of tips in the hunt for armed thieves who stole Edvard Munch&#39;s &quot;The Scream&quot; and new details have showed the robbers were more professional than first thought.
9232
If thereâs a head in your luggage, you might want to allow yourself a few extra minutes at the security checkpoint.
634274
Two men in black ski masks entered a museum in Oslo yesterday and, as terrified tourists watched, brazenly pulled from the wall two masterpieces by the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, including "The Scream," one of the most familiar images in Western art.
89370
OSLO -- Armed, masked thieves burst into a lightly guarded Oslo museum yesterday and snatched the Edvard Munch masterpiece &quot;The Scream&quot; and a second Munch painting from the walls as stunned visitors watched.
48790
Metal detectors form part of increased security at a Mozart opera showing a beheaded Prophet Muhammad.
264278
Joe Grand has never really thought of himself as an artist, but on Saturday night, he&#39;s having his first gallery opening.Grand is a hardware hacker: He&#39;s at home with a soldering iron in his hand and&#160;the guts of some electronic device opened up in front of him. A former member of the L0pht Heavy Industries hacker collective, he designed the programmable conference badges used at this year&#39;s Defcon 15 hacker conference and a cheap RFID reader, soon to be on store shelves at Radio Shack.His show, called &quot;When Electronics Become Art,&quot; is happening at the 20 goto 10 gallery, on the fringe of San Francisco&#39;s notorious Tenderloin district. It&#39;s the kind of place where you&#39;d expect to see a hacker art exhibit: It&#39;s populated by junkies, liquor stores, and dive bars. Gallery owner Christopher Abad says the space was filled with old TVs and other junk hoarded by &quot;dumpster-diving meth heads&quot; before he moved in earlier this year.Abad, a noted hacker in his own right, says that Grand&#39;s work is good enough that it deserves the kind of attention you get in a fine-art gallery setting. &quot;A lot of the stuff that I&#39;ve seen him work on is pretty interesting, and it&#39;s rare for hackers to get any kind of credit outside of that community or any exposure at all,&quot; he said. &quot;At best you get to see some movie where it&#39;s all completely embellished.&quot;Though 20 goto10 also has the typical fine-art exhibits and book readings you&#39;d expect from a gallery, it&#39;s a bit of a hacker experiment. Abad featured another technology-themed installation in the gallery&#39;s first show this past February: a system that could be used to spoof caller ID, check other people&#39;s voicemail and launch unsuspecting man-in-the-middle attacks.Abad says he wants 20 goto 10 to be a venue that goes beyond the standard hacker conference. The gallery environment lets people gather information at their own pace.&quot;When Electronics Become Art,&quot; includes the Defcon badges Grand has designed as well as a &quot;Curtain of Shame&quot; of malfunctioning badges, a Marquee sign with the word Kingpin (Grand&#39;s hacker moniker) cut into Nintendo and Atari circuit boards and a modified searchlight from a US Army M-60 Patton tank.There will also be an interactive RFID exhibit and what Grand calls his Lichtenberg Lighting Frame -- a large acrylic block he picked up at a Boston flea market with a tiny multi-color LED&#160;display in the middle.But one of Grand&#39;s favorite pieces is a hacked up Atari computer called Atari K-9. While visiting his family, last Thanksgiving, Grand found a floppy disk containing a program that he&#39;d written for the Atari when he was eight. He created a custom display for the machine to &quot;make it look like it was created by Atari in the 80s&quot; and got his old program to run on the Atari. It&#39;s a silly graphic of K-9, the robot dog, from the 1970s TV series Dr. Who, but Grand sees it as a kind of collaborative project with his eight year-old self. &quot;It&#39;s basically to pay tribute to my past. I grew up with an Atari 400 computer,&quot; he said.Grand makes his living running his design company, Grand Idea Studio, and he&#39;s currently filming an engineering TV show, due to air next year on a popular science cable channel,But does he consider himself an artist? Maybe electronics aesthete would be a better description.&quot;Engineering and electronics does have this simple, beautiful way about it. If something is done in a really elegant fashion, then it could be considered art,&quot; he said. &quot;Sometimes I&#39;ll open up a product to see how it&#39;s made ... and there&#39;s a lot of beautiful design work that goes on.&quot;&quot;It&#39;s hard for me to consider myself an artist, because what I do to me doesn&#39;t seem like art,&quot; he added. &quot;People can call me an artist. I still consider myself an engineer and a hardware hacker.&quot;&quot;When Electronics Become Art,&quot; runs through Nov. 8 at 20 goto 10, 679 Geary Street, San Francisco. The show opens on Saturday, from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m., and gallery hours are 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Thursday and Friday; 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. on weekends.
244757
Art thieves seem to be unable to keep their hands off Edvard Munch&#39;s iconic masterpiece, The Scream, despite the fact that it&#39;s one of the world&#39;s most recognizable paintings.