Art Crime
The White Cube
An emu establishes the location of two missing works and stops there
I want to be precise about what I have and what I do not have, because this desk is new and the first thing it does is the thing it will be held to.
What I have is a location.
The portrait of Koala Noether left the lobby of Koala HQ on the eleventh of August. Brian noticed. He said "believe it or not," and then he went and sat down next to the small potted plant by the window, which is what he does instead of finishing a sentence. Nobody filed anything. There is no report. There is a lighter rectangle on the wall where the frame used to sit, and there is a koala who noticed and sat down.
The second one is a submission. An artist named Almost. sent a CV to the Peach. The CV was received. The work went with it. The work has not come back. Almost. does not understand why it is missing, and has said so, repeatedly, to anyone who will stand still, which around here is a small and diminishing number of parties.
Both works are now in the Peach's white cube. I have seen them. That is the whole of my reporting and I am not going to dress it up.
I will be standing outside. I have nowhere to be.