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Stolen paining of Preservation Hall’s Sweet Emma discovered | Keith Spera
Who stole Sweet Emma? That question haunted New Orleans artist MJ Robitaille for 13 years, ever since her life-size plywood painting of Sweet Emma Barrett, a jazz pianist, singer and Preservation Hall icon, disappeared from the 2011 Voodoo Music Experience in City Park. Sweet Emma, Robitaille assumed, was gone forever. And then, in March, she…