| the heist |
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| your personal art thief |
| August 1, 2026 |
| Last Night's Haul |
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| Kneeling friar with outstretched hands |
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Fra Semplice da Verona, 1589-1654 lifted from SMK, the National Gallery of Denmark |
| also in the bag: |
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Fiskehejre, skestork, en and og en spurvefugl Unknown, 1608-1625 · SMK, the National Gallery of Denmark |
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Royal Coat of Arms of Louis XV Pierre François Tardieu or Jacques Nicolas Tardieu after François Boucher, c. 1745 · National Gallery of Art, Washington |
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De Slag bij Waterloo Jan Willem Pieneman, 1824 · Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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Boy Viewing Mount Fuji Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (1760-1849), 1839 · the National Museum of Asian Art |
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The Chess Players Liberale da Verona, ca. 1475 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| The Line |
| "He suggested, too, that he should treat her to music, and write verses in her praise, and if he was unwilling to take the trouble of composing them, he offered to do it himself." |
| Don Quixote, Cervantes |
| From the Vault |
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Tompkin's real wild west frontier exhibition and European circus, 1890-01-01 found in the Library of Congress |
| On the Lam |
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| Bukhara, Uzbekistan |
| Bukhara is the seventh-largest city in Uzbekistan by population, with 280,187 residents as of 1 January 2020. It is the capital of Bukhara Region. Lay low here. |
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