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Potts
said, the only downside is technical =97 the "inherent dangers in =
transporting
delicate objects on any regular basis." And though Potts notes that =
advances
in technology have made travel "much less difficult than it was a =
generation
ago," things still go wrong.

In 2000, Russia's Hermitage Museum sent Matisse's famous painting "La =
Danse"
to Italy for a show =97 then briefly took it back after a man with =
family
history in pre-revolutionary Russia attempted a legal challenge to the
Hermitage's ownership. In 2001, the National Gallery of Scotland sent a
landscape by Gainsborough to the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, only to =
learn
that an attacker had put a three-centimeter gouge in one corner. (It was
repaired.) The same year, a Chagall painting on loan from a private =
owner in
Russia was stolen from the Jewish Museum in New York. (It was =
recovered.)

"These things happen from time to time," said LAPD Detective Don Hrycyk, =
who
specializes in art crimes. In fact, Hrycyk noted, "there actually was an
incident over at the Getty" during a 2003 photography exhibition. =
"Somebody
just went crazy and smashed an acrylic covering that was supposed to =
protect
the photograph. But this guy beat on the display so hard that it damaged =
the
photograph underneath."

The photograph, "Leipzig, German," by Lee Miller, was on loan from the =
Lee
Miller Archive. Hrycyk arrested the vandal.

"Our conservators repaired the damage, and returned it to the archive," =
said
Giurini. "But in 2004 we purchased it, and now it's a part of our
collection."=20

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