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Photo by Diane Smithers Based on a true story of the world’s biggest art caper,
Art Heist is a true crime walking show where socially distanced groups will walk to multiple locations to gather clues. The amateur gumshoes interact with a wild group of wily career criminals, slimy con men, rumpled art recovery specialists, a possible inside man, a gentle psychopath, and the larger-than-life but definitely real self-proclaimed Greatest Art Thief of All Time. The story is based on the biggest art heist in history and took place on March 18, 1990, when two thieves disguised as police officers entered Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in the middle of the night, telling guards they were investigating a disturbance. Valued at a half a billion dollars, 13 works of art, including paintings by Rembrandt, Vermeer and Manet wer
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Empty frames: the Isabella Steward Gardner Museum
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It’s the most costly St Patrick’s Day in art history. Around 1am on Sunday 18 March 1990, as revellers stumbled home from a hard day’s boozing and Boston’s police forces mustered for the downtown parade later that day, two men dressed as cops showed up outside the quiet back entrance to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
One of the two night watchmen on duty, a 23-year-old music school dropout called Rick Abath, buzzed them in. The men ordered Abath to call his partner down to the security desk. They told him he matched a suspect description and to step out from behind the desk – away from his panic button, his only connection to the outside world. They shoved both guards up against the wall and, according to Abath, announced themselves: “Gentleman, this is a robbery.”
April 14, 2021
The Gardner Museum Theft, considered by many to be the greatest in art history, remains an unsolved crime. Theories about the heist have been fought over across media platforms for decades, from books to articles, to podcast series.
Now Netflix enters the ring with “This Is A Robbery: The World’s Biggest Art Heist,” a four-part documentary by the Barnicle Brothers. While the series starts well enough, with each of the roughly four hours providing a great deal of interesting food for thought about both the background to the crime and its subsequent investigation, by the final episode I found myself asking, “What was the point?”
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