RODIN THINKER RECOVERED

A Rodin Thinker, one of seven bronze statues stolen from the garden of the Singer Laren Museum near Amsterdam earlier in the week, was found badly damaged on Friday, reports the New York Times‘ Peter Edidin. None of the other statues have been found. The police arrested two men on Thursday in connection with the theft. The thieves had ignored the iron statues in the museum’s garden, which suggests they might have been after the bronzes for their value as metal. The museum is in the former home of the American artist and steel heir William Singer, who died in 1943.