did you know that in 1911 the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre ? They blamed everybody. Even briefly, the impoverished, new to Paris, rather short and disheveled, utterly unknown young Spanish painter named Pablo Picasso… But the best, and most pathetically funny part of this story is this - and it should, sadly, tell you all you really need to know about the general public's actual interest in art: ... More people went to the Louvre to see the painting when it wasn't there, than when it was. The museum staff kept attendance you see, just like me …
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