{"id":109308,"date":"2017-03-28T09:10:03","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T13:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=109308"},"modified":"2017-03-28T10:21:17","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T14:21:17","slug":"steal-this-coin-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/28\/steal-this-coin-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Steal This Coin, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_109309\" style=\"width: 959px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/bigmapleleaf.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109309\" class=\"wp-image-109309 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/bigmapleleaf.jpg\" width=\"949\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/bigmapleleaf.jpg 949w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/bigmapleleaf-300x147.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/bigmapleleaf-768x376.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-109309\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I bet you can pick it up all by yourself.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hey, are you busy tonight? I want to run something by you: I think we should steal the world\u2019s largest gold coin. Yes, it is 221 pounds. Yes, it is Canadian, and unfortunately known as the \u201cBig Maple Leaf.\u201d And yes, it was just stolen\u2014like, two nights ago\u2014from a museum in Berlin. But don\u2019t you see? This makes our work even easier. The original thieves already took care of the hard part. All we have to do is find them, neutralize them, and abscond with our booty in a very large, very stable cart. Here\u2019s Melissa Eddy with some background: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/03\/27\/world\/europe\/gold-coin-berlin-stolen.html?mtrref=getpocket.com&amp;gwh=041EFA70C5764CB7EC5997D345CE7AE8&amp;gwt=pay&amp;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">The coin is about twenty-one inches in diameter and over an inch thick<\/a>. It has the head of Queen Elizabeth II on one side and a maple leaf on the other. Its face value is 1 million Canadian dollars, or about $750,000, but by gold content alone, it is worth as much as $4.5 million at current market prices. And though it weighs about as much as a refrigerator, somehow thieves apparently managed to lug it through the museum and up at least one floor to get it out of a window at the back of the building. The police are still trying to figure out exactly how they did it \u2026 Their theory for now is that the thieves dragged the coin through the museum, out the window and then along the railway track, possibly reaching a park on the opposite bank of the river near the Hackescher Markt, a public square in Berlin that is home to a number of late-night bars and cafes.\u201d (This is where we\u2019ll begin our quest.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Dora Zhang reminds us not to confuse our love of literature with a generic, feel-good love of books\u2014and not to allow the exploitation of literature: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/Love-LootLit\/228599\/\" target=\"_blank\">If it seems natural today that we can and do love literature, a popular strain of bibliophilia predicates that love precisely on its utility\u2014in particular its capacity to make us better people<\/a>. This is evident from the moral uplift of Oprah\u2019s Book Club to Alain de Botton\u2019s\u00a0project of rewriting the Western literary canon in the genre of self-help. His London-based School of Life organizes retreats in sumptuous country estates, promising discussions about how books can change us and individual consultations with \u2018bibliotherapists\u2019 who can make personalized recommendations. (One can only imagine the prescriptions\u2014for greater stoicism, one dose of Hemingway; for better friendships, a splash of Montaigne; for cheerful optimism, avoid Beckett at all costs.) There\u2019s little doubt that books can transform us. But transformation isn\u2019t always comfortable\u2014\u2018a book must be the ax for the frozen sea inside us,\u2019 Kafka said. When literature is at once luxury commodity and magic pill, the change we seek from it is unlikely to be the kind that comes from being alienated, devastated, or having the ground under us whisked away.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Adam Shatz, who\u2019s just written for the <em>Daily <\/em>on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/27\/blues-to-come\/\" target=\"_blank\">new directions in avant-garde jazz<\/a>, weighs in on the controversy swirling around the Whitney Biennial, where Dana Schutz\u2019s painting of Emmett Till in an open basket has given rise to allegations of racism\u2014and to demands the painting be taken down. Shatz writes, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/03\/24\/adam-shatz\/raw-material\/\" target=\"_blank\">Whose art is it, and who gets to make it<\/a>?\u00a0A prominent black curator told me years ago about a tour she had given to a group of people visiting a show of work about race in America. A black woman in the group pointed to a painting she considered degrading to black people, and compared it to one that, in her view, expressed an ennobling vision of black humanity. The first painting was by Robert Colescott, a black artist who has drawn mischievously on African-American stereotypes in his work; the second was by the white, Jewish artist Leon Golub, a left-wing figurative painter. It could be argued that one painter was exercising his cultural rights, the other mining the black body for raw material. But for at least one black viewer, the question of whether belonging confers legitimacy was not so easily settled. What is most troubling about the call to remove Schutz\u2019s painting is not the censoriousness, but the implicit disavowal that acts of radical sympathy, and imaginative identification, are possible across racial lines.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Gary Indiana has some even stronger words for those who would censor Schutz. But first, his thoughts about our president and those who\u00a0write about him for a living: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/affidavit.culturalcounsel.com\/articles\/fait-accompli?utm_source=Breakfast+with+ARTnews&amp;utm_campaign=09d2f9d174-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_03_27&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_c5d7f10ceb-09d2f9d174-293591421\" target=\"_blank\">There is a French word,\u00a0<em>abrutissement<\/em>, that describes the cretinizing effect of a phenomenon like Donald Trump<\/a>\u2014someone so appalling and offensive to one\u2019s sense of decency that he turns his adversaries into fulminating animals. This word may also connote the mesmeric effect of such a person\u2014what Kluge calls \u2018the charisma of the drunken elephant\u2019\u2014on credulous, stupid individuals.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Julian Barnes reads <em>The Pen and the Brush<\/em>, Anka Muhlstein\u2019s new book about the bond between writers and artists in nineteenth-century France: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/2017\/04\/06\/marvelous-moment-french-writers-artists\/\" target=\"_blank\">The link \u2026 was strong and largely cordial<\/a>. But some writers went further\u2014or imagined, or claimed, they did. Balzac described himself as \u2018a literary painter.\u2019 Muhlstein calls Zola a \u2018writer-painter.\u2019 Maupassant hymns the superiority of painting over fiction (though he was mainly talking about color). Proust is in Muhlstein\u2019s eyes occasionally a kind of Cubist. Muhlstein charts the sudden irruption of the visual arts into the lives of nonelite Parisians: first, by the opening of the Louvre as a Central Museum of Arts in 1793; later, by the arrival of vast booty from Napoleon\u2019s conquests (and the tenacious holding on to it after the empire fell). It was not just the thrilling, democratic availability of great art that excited writers; it was also that painters were \u2018making it new\u2019 as much, if not more so, than writers. So writers now looked at how painters looked.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s roundup: stealing Big Maple Leaf; eschewing rampant bibliophilia; looking at the Dana Schutz controversy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[35,17794,28043,23328,8372,865,17542,4419,28044,4446,67,28045,12251,4290],"class_list":["post-109308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-art","tag-bibliophilia","tag-big-maple-leaf","tag-dana-schutz","tag-emmett-till","tag-france","tag-gary-indiana","tag-gold","tag-gold-coins","tag-julian-barnes","tag-painting","tag-the-pen-and-the-brush","tag-theft","tag-whitney-biennial"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Someone Stole the World\u2019s Largest Gold Coin\u2014Let\u2019s Do It Again<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In today\u2019s arts and culture news: stealing Big Maple Leaf; 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