February Is Steal A Picasso Month

A year ago, Pablo Picasso’s granddaughter had two of her grandfather’s paintings stolen from her home in Paris. This week thieves struck again at a Picasso exhibit with a name that sounds like someone fell on their keyboard:

The paintings were stolen Wednesday evening after closing time at the Seedamm-Kulturzentrum in the small town of Pfaeffikon, near Zurich. Police have yet to catch the culprits.

Possibly because no one can understand those names over the police scanner.

The two oil paintings — “Tete de cheval” (”Head of horse”) from 1962 and “Verre et pichet” (”Glass and pitcher”) from 1944 — were on loan from the Sprengel Museum in Hanover, Germany, police said.

How about we put images of the paintings on the side of milk cartons? Even if no one finds them, the common folk still get a little culture. Besides the culture that’s already in the milk. Yuk, yuk. Shoot us, it’s Friday.

2 Picasso paintings stolen from Swiss exhibit [MSNBC]