Royal Academy of Arts Myra Hindley, a convicted murderer. The painting was vandalised while on display. In 2004, the Academy attracted media attention for a series of financial scandals and reports of a feud between Rosenthal and other senior staff. These problems resulted in the cancellation of what were expected to have been profitable exhibitions. In 2006, it attracted the press by erroneously placing only the support for a sculpture on display, and then justifying it being kept on display. The Academy also hosts an annual Royal Academy summer exhibition of new art, which is a well-known event on the London social calendar. In
Portrait of Suzanne Bloch men invaded the museum and took away Picasso's "Portrait of Suzanne Bloch" and Portinari's "O lavrador de café" from the museum collection. The whole action took about three minutes. The estimated value of the works was US$55 million, with the portrait alone valued at US$50 million. The paintings, which are listed as Brazilian National Heritage by IPHAN, remained missing until January 8, 2008, when they were recovered in Ferraz de Vasconcelos by the Police of São Paulo. The paintings were returned, undamaged, to the São Paulo Museum of Art. The painting was exhibited at the Thannhauser Gallery in Berlin (1913);