It sure does seem like there have been a lot of art thefts recently. I’ve only been writing this blog for about a month now and I never realized stuff was stolen so frequently.

So according to Reuters, armed robbers stole two Picasso prints and two works by Brazilian artists from Sao Paulo’s Pinacoteca Museum today.

“The three robbers entered the museum in broad daylight and threatened security guards.”

I don’t know about you but if I were a security guard I would fantasize about the day someone came in trying to steal something so I could finally use my gun, or at least my giant can of pepper spray.

“They made off with the Spanish artist’s 1963 print “The Painter and the Model” and “Minotaur, Drinker and Women” from 1933, the state culture.

They also snatched the print “Couple” by Brazilian artist Lasar Segall (1891-1957) and the painting “Women in a Window” by fellow Brazilian Emiliano Di Cavalcanti (1897-1976).

The artworks, belonging to the Jose and Paulina Nemirovsky Foundation and worth in total about 1 million reais ($613,000), were on display in the Pinacoteca Station annex of the museum.

It was the second theft of works by Picasso, who lived from 1881 to 1973, in Sao Paulo in recent months.

In December, his painting “Portrait of Suzanne Bloch” was stolen from the Sao Paulo Museum of Art along with Brazilian painter Candido Portinari’s “The Coffee Worker,” worth a combined $55 million.

Those thieves forced open the museum’s main door with a hydraulic jack and used a crowbar to smash a glass door. The museum had no alarm system and neither painting was insured.”

Seriously what is the deal with museums not having alarms or cameras or even insurance?!

“Police recovered the paintings and arrested two suspects a few weeks later.”

So there you have it, the latest in your art thievery news. I really had no idea this happened so much.