If youâve ever had the pleasure of spending an afternoon in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on Evans Street, you may have noticed a handful of empty frames or strangely blank spaces on the gallery walls. These are the last traces of 13 pieces of art stolen on the night of Saint Patrickâs Day in 1990. To this day, none of the pieces have ever been found, no one has been formally charged for the heist, and the Gardner Museum website still lists a $10 million reward guaranteed to anyone who locates the missing art. This crime lies at the center of Netflixâs new limited series âThis is a Robbery: The Worldâs Biggest Art Heist.â Produced over the course of seven years, the four-episode show aims to shed light on the 31-year-old mystery.
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If the collected works of Ben Affleck have taught us anything, it s that Boston crimes just hit differently. One of the city s most infamous unsolved mysteries gets the spotlight in new Netflix docuseries
This Is a Robbery: The World s Biggest Art Heist, which digs into the 1990 robbery of Boston s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Packed with a highbrow-lowbrow blend of art history, gritty mafia drama, and Boston accents, it s a story that seems made for the movies, but the deeper the series goes, the more the truth feels stranger than fiction. One episode alone features stories of gruesome mob decapitations alongside a lesson on how Rembrandt s paintings interact with the beholder. You don t have to be a true crime devotee to find something thril
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