Calgary artist gets some closure years after art heist

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Calgary artist gets some closure years after art heist
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All the paintings at Saturday's exhibit still had evidence stickers on them from the police investigation.

WATCH ABOVE : Six years after her art was stolen during an art heist at a Calgary gallery, artist Michelle Kruger held an art exhibit entitled “The Heist” Saturday night, showcasing some of the paintings that were returned to her in a unique way.She called the exhibit “The Heist,” and displayed the paintings as if they were part of a crime scene.

“We could fix it, but then we thought, ‘That’s part of the story.’ These are one-of-a-kind paintings, there’s no other artwork out there like that where they’ve been involved in this whole entire unbelievable story,” Kruger said.Canada Post strike explained: What you need to know about your mail

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