| the heist |
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| your personal art thief |
| July 31, 2026 |
| Last Night's Haul |
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| Untitled (Portrait of a Woman in Blue Sari and Veil) |
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Unknown, 1900–2000 gelatin silver print, hand-colored · lifted from The Cleveland Museum of Art |
| also in the bag: |
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Garment hook (daigou) in the form of a bird Unknown, 206 BCE-220 CE · the National Museum of Asian Art |
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Henry Clay Charles Bird King, 1821 · National Gallery of Art, Washington |
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A Chaous, a Courier to the Sultan workshop of Jean Baptiste Vanmour, 1700 - 1737 · Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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Philip IV (1605–1665), King of Spain Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez), probably 1624 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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Portrait of a Woman Jacob Adriaensz Backer, 1636 · Wikimedia Commons |
| The Line |
| "I will hereupon confess I am in love. And as it is base for a soldier to love, so am I in love with a base wench. If drawing." |
| Love's Labour's Lost, Shakespeare |
| From the Vault |
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Montana Northern Pacific North Coast Limited, 1920-01-01 found in the Library of Congress |
| On the Lam |
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| Petra, Jordan |
| Petra, originally known to its inhabitants as Raqmu, is an ancient city and archaeological site in southern Jordan. Famous for its rock-cut architecture and water conduit systems, Petra is also called the "Rose City" because of the colour of the sandstone from which it is carved. Lay low here. |
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