Inside the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum after the robbery, as seen on This Is a Robbery: The World s Biggest Art Heist. (Courtesy of Netflix)
After more than 30 years, the story of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist has all the trappings of a spectacular true-crime drama. The thief’s disguises, mobsters and missing art valued at more than $500 million have captivated and confounded law enforcement, reporters, book authors and podcast hosts. Yet, no matter how many people pour over the facts, the crime remains unsolved.
The new four-part Netflix docuseries “This Is a Robbery: The World’s Biggest Art Heist,” premiering on April 7, isn’t likely to put someone behind bars anytime soon. But it will potentially introduce a new audience to the remarkable event and its seemingly infinite number of outlandish characters and rabbit-hole theories. Aside from getting an entertaining fix then turning in for the night, the hope of another Gardner retelling, one presumes, is
‘An art thief’s delight’: Netflix crime documentary examines heist at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum from 1990
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In this March 21, 1990, file photo, a security guard stands outside the Dutch Room of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the site where robbers stole treasured art objects in Boston. The Mead Art Museum in Amherst, Mass., is offering visitors a unique glimpse of the 13 masterpieces stolen more than a quarter century ago from the Gardner Museum. The exhibit opening Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017, shows the work of San Francisco-based artist Kota Ezawa.Associated Press
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Thirty-one years after two men dressed as Boston police officers were allowed into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and stole 13 pieces of art, the heist and the $10 million reward for the recovery of the missing pieces comes to Netflix.
Consuming true crime can be a queasy business. There’s clearly an appetite for the stuff, as attested by the ever-growing ranks of podcasts, films and TV shows dedicated to recounting these tales of death and depravity. Still, how many serial killers can one moderately well-adjusted viewer take? I was relieved to learn that Netflix’s latest addition to the genre would investigate not another murder but an art crime – ‘the biggest art heist in history’, no less, as we’re told three times in the first three minutes of
This Is a Robbery. The documentary re-examines the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum robbery of 1990.
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This month, which is National Poetry Month, the library invites you to help create a community poem or poems.
Tables in both the children s and adult areas have magnetic boards and words just waiting to be transformed into whole poems or single lines. We ask you to snap a picture of your poem or line on social media using #MTLPoetry21.
The Academy of American Poets established National Poetry Month in 1996 as a way to promote poetry reading, sharing, teaching and appreciation.
With the breakthrough of Amanda Gorman, the young poet who performed at the inauguration and the Super Bowl, poetry is reaching its widest, youngest and most diverse audience yet.