| the heist |
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| your personal art thief |
| July 7, 2026 |
| Last Night's Haul |
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| The Taoist Immortal Shih-te |
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Unknown, late 15th-early 16th Ink on paper · lifted from the National Museum of Asian Art |
| also in the bag: |
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Plaque Francois Picot, Swiss, born Geneva, Switzerland 1698-died after 1762, 1723 · the Smithsonian American Art Museum |
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The Horse Fair Rosa Bonheur, 1852–55 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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Three Skulls from Convento dei Cappucini at Palermo L.A. Ring, 1894 · SMK, the National Gallery of Denmark |
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Nile Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889 · the Smithsonian American Art Museum |
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The Composer André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry (1741–1813) Jean-Baptiste Stouf, 1804–8 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| The Line |
| "I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks. I grant I never saw a goddess go, My mistress when she walks treads on the ground." |
| Sonnets, Shakespeare |
| From the Vault |
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Athletics--WPA recreation project, Dist. No. 2, 1939-01-01 found in the Library of Congress |
| On the Lam |
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| Tofino, Canada |
| Tofino is a town of approximately 2,516 residents on the west coast of Vancouver Island in the Canadian province of British Columbia. The District of Tofino is located at the western terminus of Highway 4 on the tip of the Esowista Peninsula at the southern edge of Clayoquot Sound. Lay low here. |
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