Stolen Screams

Stolen ScreamsOn Sunday, August 22, 2004, Christina Vassiliou stepped inside the doors of a small art museum in Oslo. For Vassiliou, who was traveling with her mother, the vacation to Norway was a reward and a pilgrimage: a reward for her recent graduation from Rutgers University law school in New Jersey, a pilgrim-age to see a work of art that fascinated her almost as much as its creator, Norwegian expressionist painter Edvard Munch.The Munch Museum is situated in a northeastern neighborhood of...