the ART of the STEAL; Artworks Stolen from Seattle Galleries and Artists' Homes Surface in Surprising Hands

From: The Stranger | Date: February 3, 2005| Author: C, Erica | Copyright information

Sometime last summer, art started disappearing from galleries and houses around Seattle.

Over a period of about six months, more than a dozen pieces mysteriously vanished, taken - often in broad daylight - from galleries like Priceless Works (in Fremont), Crawl Space Gallery (on Capitol Hill) and the Center on Contemporary Art, or CoCA (in South Lake Union). No one filed a complaint about the thefts - or said anything to the media - until last September, when a 10-inch by 8-inch paint...

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