| the heist |
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| your personal art thief |
| August 15, 2026 |
| Last Night's Haul |
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| Meeting of the Freemason's lodge in which the members perform elaborate secret rituals. Etching by C. Ewart after S. Watson. |
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William Stewart Watson print/drawing · lifted from Wellcome Collection, London |
| also in the bag: |
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Mirror Unknown, 3rd century BCE · the National Museum of Asian Art |
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Acron attacking Romulus Giovanni Battista Fontana, 1541-1587 · SMK, the National Gallery of Denmark |
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Grus Americana, alta major Johann Michael Seligmann after George Edwards · National Gallery of Art, Washington |
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Margarita Trip as Minerva, Instructing her Sister Anna Maria Trip Ferdinand Bol, 1663 · Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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Small Cranberry (Oxycoccus palustris) Mary Vaux Walcott, born Philadelphia, PA 1860-died St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada 1940, 1911 · the Smithsonian American Art Museum |
| The Line |
| "The wind begun to rock the grass With threatening tunes and low, He flung a menace at the earth, A menace at the sky." |
| Poems, Emily Dickinson |
| From the Vault |
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WPA exhibition Vernon Smith, Charles Heinz, Charles Kaeselau /, 1939-01-01 found in the Library of Congress |
| On the Lam |
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| Trieste, Italy |
| Trieste is a city and seaport in northeast Italy. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, as well as of the regional decentralization entity of Trieste. Lay low here. |
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