F.B.I. agents arrested two people in Miami on Tuesday in connection with an art heist that sounds exactly like it was executed by Thomas Crown.
Anyone who's ever seen The Thomas Crown Affair knows that pulling off an art heist is best handled by experts, but that's not what happened on the Upper East Side where some balding man grabbed a six-figure Salvador Dalí painting on a Tuesday afternoon and walked off with it.
The curator had his back turned, and then poof! It was gone.
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