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copperbadge:

spiderine:

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zanmor:

gotta carry this to the end result of the heist

just gonna fence it for cash? boo

how about repatriation of stolen cultural relics? Hope Diamond vanishes one day and shows up a few months later at the National Museum in New Delhi?

super cool, super sexy

charlemane:

counterpoint: there are hyper-rich people with privately owned art

art heists from “““private collections””” are, in fact, the sexiest thing of all

marzipanandminutiae:

Nah dude

JEWEL heists

Like from private Swiss bank vaults

You have to steal something that was already only for hyper-rich people, not something that was on display for the public to enjoy and learn from and be inspired by

Art heists are just depressing

Jewel heists are sexy as fuck

goldfinchpdf:

when are we as a society going to stop romanticizing serial killers and start romanticizing art heists? there is no crime sexier than an art crime try to convince me otherwise. you won’t.

I love a good art heist story, but most real life art theft begins in a museum and ends in the art being used as collateral in drug deals, which is no bueno!

While repatriation is the dream, stealing in order to repatraiate a) breaks provenance, meaning there’s a gap in the line of ownership that can cause problems with authenticating the object, and b) can result in either a return of the object to the place it was stolen from or an international incident of some kind.

I gotta say, art heists for fictional drama, jewel heists and cash swindles of the ultra-wealthy for real life. Con yourself a billionaire!