{"id":26808,"date":"2023-07-24T11:05:42","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=26808"},"modified":"2023-07-24T11:56:34","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:56:34","slug":"furman-alum-tensley-reviews-book-about-infamous-art-thief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-alum-tensley-reviews-book-about-infamous-art-thief\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman alum Tensley reviews book about infamous art thief"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_26816\" style=\"width: 288px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26816\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26816 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2023\/07\/book-cover-art-thief-michael-finkel-e1690214133996.jpg\" alt=\"book cover art showing a bat and a boy sleeping\" width=\"278\" height=\"400\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2023\/07\/book-cover-art-thief-michael-finkel-e1690214133996.jpg 278w, https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2023\/07\/book-cover-art-thief-michael-finkel-e1690214133996-104x150.jpg 104w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 278px) 100vw, 278px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 278px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 278\/400;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-26816\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Art Thief<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Furman University alumnus Brandon Tensley, a 2012 political science and German studies graduate, wrote a review for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/books\/2023\/07\/21\/michael-finkel-art-thief-review\/\">The Washington Post<\/a> about Michael Finkel&#8217;s \u201cThe Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession.\u201d In it, Tensley pointed to a series of infamous art heists perpetrated by St\u00e9phane Breitwieser and his partner in crime from 1994 to 2001. Tensley said the book not only illuminates the more than 300 pieces stolen through the years, but also reckons with the question of archiving and ownership of history&#8217;s greatest works of art.<\/p>\n<p>Tensley is a national politics reporter for Capital B and a former political writer for CNN. In addition to a bachelor&#8217;s from Furman, he holds a master&#8217;s from the University of Oxford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon Tensley &#8217;12 takes a close look at Michael Finkel&#8217;s book and raises questions about archiving and custodianship of history&#8217;s greatest works of art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":9412,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,16,32,1943],"tags":[2185,2184,2183],"class_list":["post-26808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-in-the-news","category-modern-languages-and-literature","category-politics-and-international-affairs","category-the-washington-post","tag-archiving-and-ownership-of-art","tag-art-heists","tag-art-history"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}