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Sun Jun 12, 2022, 08:26 AM Jun 2022

Two experts raise serious questions about the Dallas Museum of Art break-in [View all]

Until his retirement in 2016, John Barelli served as security chief at the renowned Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He worked there for 38 years. He’s also the author of Stealing the Show: A History of Art and Crime in Six Thefts.

Barelli is among the world’s leading authorities on museum security, so at the moment, he and his peers are fixated on one place:

Dallas.

“I know all about it,” he said of the June 1 break-in at the Dallas Museum of Art. “But at the Met, we never had a case quite like this.”

Sharing his concern is one of the world’s leading preservationists of rare fine art.

Read more: https://www.dallasnews.com/arts-entertainment/visual-arts/2022/06/10/two-experts-raise-serious-questions-about-the-dallas-museum-of-art-break-in/

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