| the heist |
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| your personal art thief |
| September 2, 2026 |
| Last Night's Haul |
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| A selection of boring and carving tools. Etching by Bénard after Bourgeois. |
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Bourgeois., [between 1700 and 1799] print/drawing · lifted from Wellcome Collection, London |
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The Drummer Jacques Callot (French, 1592–1635), 17th century · The Cleveland Museum of Art |
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De Capou Aghassi, hoofd der blanke eunuchen workshop of Jean Baptiste Vanmour, 1700 - 1737 · Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
![The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam] at Moorfields, London: seen from the north,...](https://heist.arugulamotors.com/assets/art/2026-09-02-extra2.jpg)
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The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam] at Moorfields, London: seen from the north,... Robert Hooke · Wellcome Collection, London |
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"Page of Calligraphy Illuminated with Animals and Plants in a Field of... Nanha, verso: ca. 1610–15; recto: ca.1535–45 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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Autoportrait de Toni Ebel 1955 Toni Ebel, 1955 · Wikimedia Commons |
| The Line |
| "Sir, the Duke's pleasure is that you keep Costard safe; and you must suffer him to take no delight nor no penance; but 'a." |
| Love's Labour's Lost, Shakespeare |
| From the Vault |
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The WPA Federal Dance Theatre presents "The eternal prodigal" Choreography by Gluck-Sandor, music by Herbert Kingsley, 1936-01-01 found in the Library of Congress |
| On the Lam |
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| Samarkand, Uzbekistan |
| Samarkand is a major city located in southeastern Uzbekistan and is among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Central Asia. With a population of 882,000 inhabitants in 2026, it is the second-largest city in Uzbekistan after Tashkent. Lay low here. |
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