#The Art Thief

[youreacow-boylikeme]

if we were villains, the secret history, and the art thief are making me want to go to a boarding school in new hampshire to wear pencil skirts, tights, blazers, button ups, and mary janes in brown, black, cream, and white and study latin and theater and music and literature

[norry-yippee]

For all the true crime people out there who loved Art Heist, Baby! and want to read a book similar to it, plssssss read The Art Thief.

Words cannot express how feral I get when I talk about Stéphane Breitwieser, not that I get to talk about it much but whatever. It is my favourite true crime story and I think about it at least once a day!!!!!

If any inquires pls pls pls lemme yap about it🙏

[slow-media]

books and jazz

[doumekiss]

2024 Book Recs 1-4/?

1- Tress of The Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson 

This book tells the story of Tress a young woman who’s fiance is kidnapped by a witch and goes on a daring adventure in hope of rescuing him. It has a very interesting worldbuilding, colorful side characters, and the heroine was so compelling, I won’t say to much because I do think it’s best to experience Tress and her development without knowing much about it but I can say that Tress felt a lot like she could have been a Discworld heroine. This is a Cosmere universe novel but it is not necessary to know anything about it previously to understand the book.   

Recommended for: Fantasy fans, lady pirate fans, people that liked The Princess Bride, Stardust or Discworld.  

2 - Unruly : The Ridiculous History of England’s Kings and Queens by David Mitchell 

A history of the england monarchs told by David Mitchell (not the Cloud Atlas author, but the one we know from peep show, would I lie to you, upstart crow and many other british comedy shows), really interesting and fun and made me learn a lot of stuff I wasn't aware before, also it was cool to read a history book by an author that doesn’t even try to pretend to be impartial

Recommended for : History buffs in general, people who like David Mitchell’s type of humor, Horrible Histories fans 

3 - Earth Fathers are Weird/Earth Fathers are Odd by Lyn Gala 

The cutest story ever written about a guy getting accidentally impregnated by aliens. 

Recommended for: people that like unconventional love stories and fluff 

4 - The Art Thief : A True Story of Love, Crime and a Dangerous Obsession by Michael Finkel 

This book tells the story of Stéphane Breitwieser, a successful thief who stole over 400 pieces from museums, auctions and churches in 7 different countries, not for money but for an obsession with art and who eventually lost everything because of it. 

Recommended for: People interested in true crime, obsessive collecting, and narratives about human hubris

[sandramiksaauthor]

reading vlog, writing update, and my obsession with art crime 🖼️

[bookcoversonly]

Title: The Art Thief | Author: Michael Finkel | Publisher: Knopf (2023)

[dracula-smokes-weed]

Drawing For Nothing is out!

Forgot to announce this here but the first ten chapters for Drawing For Nothing have been released! For those who missed the last post, this is a free, digital art book for animated films that were either canceled or bombed due to complicated issues.

https://www.drawingfornothing.com/

More chapters are to come. A few highlights in the next installation will be My Peoples and Larrikins.

Also, if anyone wants to help research, feel free to send a DM! We're also working on a new cover that will feature custom artwork of various characters from these movies. If you think you got what it takes to draw in the style of another artist, we would appreciate the help!

[pmg227]

Favorite Reads of April '24

“Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.” Hilary Mantel in Wolf Hall Being Elisabeth Elliot: The Authorized Biography: Later Years Ellen Vaughn. Though I’ve known that Elisabeth Elliot was the wife of Jim Elliot (a missionary killed in Ecuador in 1956), that’s pretty much all I knew about her. A shame since she was living and writing during my younger…

[theadmiringbog]

Everything you want to do in the presence of a compelling piece is forbidden in a museum. What you first want to do, he advises, is relax, pillowed in a sofa or armchair. Sip a drink, if you desire. Eat a snack. Reach out and caress the work whenever you wish. Then you'll see art in a new way.

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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory

Spielberger's State-Trait Anxiety Inventory

Raven's Progressive Matrices

[alikunsblog]

The magician Aventurine at night💫

And the clerk of Kakavashi in the afternoon🌼

[wickedcriminal]

THE OL' SWTCHEROO

[youreacow-boylikeme]

the art thief is a beautiful book, i just began to read it

i’m unwell over the writing style of books like this, including if we were villains (my absolute favorite) and the secret history

“aesthetics are high than ethics”

[norry-yippee]

Hey! I just finished reading the Art Thief and saw that you had read it too

Uh idk what to ask so tell me anything you found interesting about it?

I found it horrible how much he broke his relationships even after his original prison sentence. It was very interesting to see his tactics and the authors note at the end on how sly he truly is.

OH MY GOSH! I’ve been waiting for someone to want to talk to me about it for literally forever I adored that book.

I remember I first heard of the book from an episode of a podcast I listened to and became obsessed. Maybe it was because I love going art museums and galleries so much I can’t imagine ever taking a beautiful piece and making it so no one else can see it again.

I guess these are my thoughts on it? I don’t believe he is a kleptomaniac, he didn’t just steal random stuff because he liked to steal, yes stealing became an addiction like thing, something he craved and felt lost without. Even after he is released from prison he goes right back to stealing, relapsing sort of(?) but he doesn’t steal like a kleptomaniac. He takes his time in picking what he wants and uses reason when he does.

I’ve always felt bad for Anne-Katherine because I feel like the relationship was abusive in some way, not physically but she probably didn’t have a lot of options, we saw how he reacted when she took a break from him. While I don’t like her, she made poor decisions and is now living with the consequences for them even if those consequences don’t include prison like his do. And, she did assist him is the stealing never telling him to stop, he loved her a lot I feel like she has more influence in the stealing than she would probably like to think, but I don’t know her personally so don’t take my opinion as fact.

How did his mother not know? That’s the big question for me, like how could you not know your son has stashed 2 million dollars in stolen art. And then for her to burn it(!) is insane to me, I could never not even for my son, some of those works were priceless beauties. But I am a teenage girl so I’m not a trusted source when it comes to motherhood.

I think the author did a really good job at telling the story to its full truth while still giving his opinions on things. It didn’t feel biased but it felt personal.

Maybe I’m weird for being so interested on some French man stealing art for the aesthetics(a very French thing to do) but I found it insane.

Thank you for asking about it sorry for word vomiting about it!

[soapyakships]

a kamiyama mystery is afoot...

[anthonysperkins]

Motorcycle Thief (1964) by Tom of Finland

[sandramiksaauthor]

July TBR 🖼️ | art, art crime, artists, and more art books