| the heist |
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| your personal art thief |
| August 4, 2026 |
| Last Night's Haul |
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| Self Portrait, Pointing at a Portrait of the Artist's deceased Colleague Dirk Jacobsz Ploegsma (1769-91) |
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Willem Bartel van der Kooi, 1791 - 1795 painting · lifted from Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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Warm source of the Scamander. Coloured etching by T. Medland, 1804, after W.... Gell, William, Sir, 1774-1836., 1 January 1804 · Wellcome Collection, London |
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Button bead; plano-convex Unknown, 305-30 BCE · the National Museum of Asian Art |
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Portrait of a Lady Paul Schad-Rossa, 1887 · Wikimedia Commons |
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Andrew W. Mellon Gari Melchers, 1930 · National Gallery of Art, Washington |
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Andries Bicker (1586-1652). Koopman op Rusland en burgemeester van Amsterdam Bartholomeus van der Helst, 1642 · Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
| The Line |
| "It was obvious that this was not the man who had destroyed her life. He felt a hand laid on his arm and looked round with a start." |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde |
| From the Vault |
![[General view from the Hendaye, Fuenterrabía, Spain]](https://heist.arugulamotors.com/assets/art/2026-08-04-vault.jpg)
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[General view from the Hendaye, Fuenterrabía, Spain], 1890-01-01 found in the Library of Congress |
| On the Lam |
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| Jiufen, Taiwan |
| Jiufen, also spelled Jioufen or Chiufen, is a historic former gold mining town in Ruifang District, New Taipei City, Taiwan. It is notable for Jiufen Old Street, a narrow, winding alleyway with shops, teahouses, and restaurants that offers tourists a view of traditional Taiwanese life. Lay low here. |
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