After the club meeting\, the Storefront re sident artist Pablo Matute will give a studio tour of his current works on display. \;
\nABOUT \;THE ART THIE F
\nNEW YORK TIMES \;BEST SELLER &bull\; \;One of t he most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the world&rsquo\;s most prolific art thief\, Sté\;phane Bre itwieser. &bull\; &ldquo\;The Art Thief\, like its title character\, has c onfidence\, é\;lan\, and a great sense of timing.&rdquo\;&mdash\;The New Yorker
\n&ldquo\;Enthralling.&rdquo\; &mdash\;The Wall Street J ournal
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In th is spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius\, the best-selling author of \;The Stranger in the Woods \;brings us into Breitwiese r&rsquo\;s strange world&mdash\;unlike most thieves\, he never stole for m oney\, keeping all his treasures in a single room where he could admire th em.
\nFor centuries\, works of art have been stolen in countless way s from all over the world\, but no one has been quite as successful at it as the master thief Sté\;phane Breitwieser. Carrying out more than t wo hundred heists over nearly eight years&mdash\;in museums and cathedrals all over Europe&mdash\;Breitwieser\, along with his girlfriend who worked as his lookout\, stole more than three hundred objects\, until it all fel l apart in spectacular fashion.
\nIn \;The Art Thief\, \;Mic hael Finkel brings us into Breitwieser&rsquo\;s strange and fascinating wo rld. Unlike most thieves\, Breitwieser never stole for money. Instead\, he displayed all his treasures in a pair of secret rooms where he could admi re them to his heart&rsquo\;s content. Possessed of a remarkable athletici sm and an innate ability to circumvent practically any security system\, B reitwieser managed to pull off a breathtaking number of audacious thefts. Yet these strange talents bred a growing disregard for risk and an addict& rsquo\;s need to score\, leading Breitwieser to ignore his girlfriend&rsqu o\;s pleas to stop&mdash\;until one final act of hubris brought everything crashing down.
\nThis is a riveting story of art\, crime\, love\, a
nd an insatiable hunger to possess beauty at any cost.
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