"While we are disheartened by this blatant criminal act, we are relieved that no harm came to our artworks, which hold immense cultural and historical value," Dabora Choi, an artist and the museum's chief coordinator of curatorial affairs said. She confirmed to The Art Newspaper that the museum will reopen on 23 August, adding: "We're getting a new alarm system installed."
The reopening will give the public one last chance to see an exhibition outlining the parallels between the Salvator Mundi and the lucrative Mattel toy brand, which has been the subject of several major museum shows lately. The specially commissioned Salvator Barbi painting is the centrepiece, intended as a "visual testament to the unexpected harmony between these two cultural phenomena," according to a press release.
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