Gaslight? A Mysterious Art Theft?
Readers, we have a small mystery here at Paper Doll Central.
On March 15, 2011, my post Displaying Children’s Art: Reframing Grandchild Moses & Making Raggedy Andy Warhol More Magnetic posted without difficulty. It was the first part of a two-part series on children’s art. The next week, we had a small hiccup, so the follow-up post, Children’s Art: Curating Not-So-Little Collections, instead of appearing on its regular day, appeared on Wednesday, March 23, 2011.
On that day, some people did have the chance to read the post, but sometime in the intervening two weeks, the post disappeared from the archives, and clicking “next post” at the end of the March 15th post links directly to last week’s post on frequent traveler rewards…skipping the second art post altogether. For those of you who use RSS feeds or have linked to the post from my Facebook business page, you’ll note that clicking on the link that used to work now yields a strange error message. (This does not feel very organized at all!)
Paper Doll was tempted to fear she imagined having written the post altogether. (I always did want to be more like Ingrid Bergman, though perhaps not in Gaslight.) However, one can still access tweets quoting the post — apparently, my line about “Not everyone is a Picasso. Heck, not even every Picasso was a Picasso!” was pretty popular.
Plus, the original post does still exist in Google’s cache:
We’re working to get the original post recovered, but it may be a while. For those of you who were left hanging and requested information about the missing post, I encourage you to click the link to read the post in its entirety via Google’s cached version (even if the colorful highlighting is a bit disconcerting).
Thank you to all the readers who wrote in to find out about this mysterious little art theft. We’ve got everyone, from Hercule Poirot to the staff of Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego? on the case, and as soon as we know something, you’ll know something.
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