iâm watching an art theft documentary and theyâre interviewing this art history professor from new york who was asked to go with the fbi to authenticate a rubens that had been stolen but it was a sting operation so they had to pretend like they werenât the fbi, that they were some private buyer about to pay $3.5 million for it, and the fbi was like âthis is a VERY delicate operation because you never know how they will react to what you have to say so let the agent do all of the talking, donât say a word to anyone just nod if itâs the rubens, the last operation we did the guy in your position got shot because things went wrong in a secondâ and then it cuts to the professorâs interview and he says âi wasnât going to fly down to miami to be a part of an undercover fbi sting operation to handle what could be rubensâs aurora and just NOT say anything. i was gonna have to ad lib a littleâ and then he tells the interviewer that when he & the fbi agent got to the hotel while he was examining the painting he started lecturing the other people, first on how badly they had wrapped it, and then about like how it had been painted, the history of it, what the subject was and what she was doing, etc etc, and he was like âi hadnât taught a class on rubens in 15 years, so for me it was like being back in the classroom except my students couldnât leaveâÂ
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