{"id":3285,"date":"2012-02-03T09:01:12","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T16:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/02\/hepworth-purloined\/"},"modified":"2012-02-08T09:47:12","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T16:47:12","slug":"hepworth-purloined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/03\/hepworth-purloined\/","title":{"rendered":"Hepworth Purloined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/2\/0b062e58-2b41-11e1-9fd0-00144feabdc0.html\" target=\"_blank\">from Financial Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Hepworth sculpture latest target of \u2018scrap metal\u2019 thieves<\/h1>\n<p>By Helen Warless<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: right; padding-bottom: 6px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; display: inline; float: right; margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 10px; width: 272px\" class=\"fullstoryImage fullstoryImageLeft article\"><span style=\"display: inline; position: relative; float: left; width: auto; height: auto; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 4px; margin: 0px\" class=\"story-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/im.media.ft.com\/content\/images\/80cccef2-2b51-11e1-a9e4-00144feabdc0.img\" alt=\"\u2018Two Forms (Divided Circle)\u2019 by Barbara Hepworth\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: left; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 15px; color: #777777; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" class=\"caption\"><em>\u2018Two Forms (Divided Circle)\u2019 by Barbara Hepworth, taken from Dulwich Park, London<\/em><\/p>\n<p>An enormous bronze sculpture by Barbara Hepworth which was wrenched from its plinth in a south London park is thought to be the latest in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/2\/1a77fbee-1b76-11e1-8b11-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1gzXUNF2X\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Finders keepers?\">a string of artworks to have been targeted by the country\u2019s metal thieves<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 2m-high sculpture, \u201cTwo Forms (Divided Circle)\u201d had been on display in Dulwich Park for more than 40 years and is insured for \u00a3500,000. It was removed on Monday night by criminals who broke through the park gates, drove up to the artwork, hacked through the base and took it away.<\/p>\n<p>Police forces around the UK have admitted they are struggling to contain the rise in metal thefts spurred by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/0\/88141c36-2b26-11e1-9fd0-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1gzXUNF2X\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Recession economics returns to metals\">soaring copper, lead and bronze prices<\/a>. Railway lines, phone and electricity cables and even bus stops have been hauled off by criminals cashing in on the high demand for scrap metal. MPs concerned that thieves have turned their attention to war memorials, commemorative plaques and valuable sculptures have called on the government to give the police more powers to crack down on scrap dealers who ultimately buy the stolen metal.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/2\/0b062e58-2b41-11e1-9fd0-00144feabdc0.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at Financial Times<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Financial Times Hepworth sculpture latest target of \u2018scrap metal\u2019 thieves By Helen Warless \u2018Two Forms (Divided Circle)\u2019 by Barbara Hepworth, taken from Dulwich Park, London An enormous bronze sculpture by Barbara Hepworth which was wrenched from its plinth in a south London park is thought to be the latest in\u00a0a string of artworks to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}