How To Steal A Picasso (Published Comedy)
by William Missouri Downs
A comedy about forgery, art theft, and family. The Smith family rarely agrees on anything, but when their son Johnny returns home for the first time in four years, they reluctantly reunite to celebrate their father, a failed painter who has improbably won the Yoko Ono Lifetime Achievement Award for Non-Objective Art. Then a Picasso disappears from the nearby Detroit Institute of Arts. Suddenly, Johnny’s...
A comedy about forgery, art theft, and family. The Smith family rarely agrees on anything, but when their son Johnny returns home for the first time in four years, they reluctantly reunite to celebrate their father, a failed painter who has improbably won the Yoko Ono Lifetime Achievement Award for Non-Objective Art. Then a Picasso disappears from the nearby Detroit Institute of Arts. Suddenly, Johnny’s homecoming takes a dangerous turn, and a night meant for redemption slides into suspicion, absurdity, and chaos.
This dark comedy explores what is real and what is counterfeit in a pixelated world where artists are treated like employees and art is reduced to a commodity.
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