On August 2nd, Reuters reported the theft of Caravaggio's The Taking of Christ from the Museum of Western and Eastern Art in Odessa, Ukraine. Thieves broke in through a window and cut the painting from its frame during the night. Vitaly Abramov of the Odessa Museum of Art called it a cultural catastrophe and a national tragedy because, "There is so little art of such level in the former Soviet Union." Another version of the painting is on display in Dublin at the National Gallery of Ireland.
