| the heist |
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| your personal art thief |
| July 27, 2026 |
| Last Night's Haul |
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| A llama standing on a rock. Coloured wood engraving by J. W. Whimper. |
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Josiah Wood Whymper print/drawing · lifted from Wellcome Collection, London |
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Act VII from the series The Storehouse of Loyal Retainers As Portrayed by... Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, c. 1754–1806), 1794–95 · The Cleveland Museum of Art |
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Koeien in de weide bij een boerderij Paulus Potter, 1653 · Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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Rampion (Campanula rapunculus L.): entire flowering plant. Coloured etching by... Bouchard, Magdalena., [1772] · Wellcome Collection, London |
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Poet Semimaru with His Lute in a Bag Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (1760-1849), 1839 · the National Museum of Asian Art |
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Friedrich III (1463–1525), the Wise, Elector of Saxony Lucas Cranach the Elder and Workshop, 1533 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| The Line |
| "I have sent Menoikeus' son, Creon, my own wife's brother, forth alone To Apollo's House in Delphi, there to ask What word, what deed of mine, what bitter task, May save my city." |
| Oedipus Rex, Sophocles |
| From the Vault |
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WPA Federal Art Project exhibition - mural studies, 1936-01-01 found in the Library of Congress |
| On the Lam |
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| Malacca, Malaysia |
| Malacca City is the capital city of the Malaysian state of Malacca. It is the oldest Malaysian city on the Strait of Malacca, having become a successful entrepôt in the era of the Malacca Sultanate. Lay low here. |
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