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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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Michael Downing, whose books illuminated his illness and the lives of others, dies at 62
By Bryan Marquard Globe Staff,Updated February 28, 2021, 4:38 p.m.
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Mr. Downing, equally adept at fiction and nonfiction, wrote nine books. (Pat Greenhouse/Globe staff/file)
At 45, Michael Downing learned that his excellent health was a mirage, obscuring a genetic defect that probably had led to his fatherâs death from a heart attack at 44.
The first symptom of his demise, he learned, would be abrupt and final. A series of doctors âleaned a little forward in their chairs and said the words âsudden deathâ to me,â he later recalled.