Dutch police arrest suspect in theft of Van Gogh, Hals paintings
A man has been accused of stealing two paintings, worth millions, from museums shut down during the pandemic. Neither of the famous artworks has been recovered.
Van Gogh was living with his parents when he painted the gardens of the parsonage in Neunen, where his father was pastor
Dutch police arrested a 58-year-old man on Tuesday on suspicion of stealing paintings by Vincent Van Gogh and Frans Hals from museums in the Netherlands last year.
Police said the man was held at his home in the central town of Baarn on suspicion of stealing Van Gogh s 1884 painting Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring from the Singer Laren Museum near Amsterdam where it was on loan from the Groninger Museum in March 2020; and Two Laughing Boys with a Mug of Beer, painted by Hals in 1626, from the Museum Hofje Van Aerden in Leerdam in August of last year.
Five things to do, April 5-11
Native American poetry, a new spotlight on the Gardner Museum theft, showcasing a sculptorâs work, and more.
Updated April 2, 2021, 11:55 a.m.
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Monday
Tap into a lively conversation on âNative Americans and the National Consciousnessâ featuring
US poet laureate Joy Harjo, a member of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation. Harjo will read from her works. The free virtual event will be presented at 6 p.m. by Harvardâs Native American Program and the Harvard Art Museums. Registration required at harvardartmuseums.org.
Premiering Wednesday
Vanished
The infamous 1990 art heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum has never been solved. In
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More than 30 years ago, a priceless Rembrandt painting titled “Christ in the Storm of the Sea of Galilee” and 12 other works were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston in one of the biggest, most brazen, most captivating and most confounding art heists ever. Today, that Rembrandt is hidden away but on display in a palace in Saudi Arabia. Or maybe it’s somewhere in Canada, South America or Japan or France or Jamaica, or in the basement of a church in South Boston or buried in the backyard of some old gangster’s house. Perhaps the most likely and certainly saddest scenario of all: These beautiful and irreplaceable works were destroyed and discarded by some person(s) who had upwards of $500 million in art on their hands, and couldn’t figure out a way to sell them without getting caught.
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