Thieves Like Us: The Greatest Art Heist of the 21st Century

Published: July 1, 2022, 7 a.m.

b'Some people are born for a certain vocation. Mozart, for music. Shakespeare, for drama. Steven Hawking, for physics, and...let\'s say...Machine Gun Kelly? for rap music. Vjeran Tomic was born for the steal\\u2014as comfortable scaling the side of a tightly-guarded museum as a leopard is, stalking through the jungle. He says he\\u2019s in it for the love of art\\u2014a modern-day Robin Hood. But we seem to remember something about Robin Hood giving the money away\\u2026hmm.

Sources:
The New Yorker, Jake Halpern: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/14/the-french-burglar-who-pulled-off-his-generations-biggest-art-heist
The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/20/arts/design/vjeran-tomic-paris-spiderman-sentenced-to-8-years-for-art-heist.html
The Daily Beast: https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-spiderman-art-heist-and-the-five-missing-masterpieces

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