UPDATED with video: The Neon documentary The Painter and the Thief begins with a surprising "meet cute." After two paintings are stolen from artist Barbora Kysilkova in Oslo, Norway, she encounters one of the suspected thieves in court. Instead of feeling angry at the accused, Karl-Bertil Nordland, he excites her…
Czech artist Barbora Kysilkova was as surprised as anyone when she received a phone call in 2015 informing her that thieves had stolen two of her paintings from a gallery in Oslo, Norway.
"I just felt very confused," she recalls, "why somebody would decide to break a law in order to get my work. Because I’m not a…
