“Early in the morning on Sunday, 28 August, the German artist Anselm Kiefer’s 35,000sq. m studio and warehouse space in Croissy-Beaubourg, about 25km west of Paris, was burgled and robbed … The thieves are suspected of cutting through wire cages and making off with a ten-tonne lead sculpture of stacks of books – valued at €1.3m – and 12 tonnes of raw marble, worth around €1m.”