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Reviving the Story Behind the Greatest Art Heist Ever

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston was robbed March 18, 1990, by two men dressed as Boston police officers. They walked out with 13 priceless pieces of art, including two Rembrandts, a Vermeer, a Manet and five Degas drawings valued today at about $500 million. c. Courtesy of Netflix ©2021 Does something truly qualify as a mystery if nobody knows about it in the first place? Or, put another way: How do you have a whodunnit if you don t even know what the it is? Two Boston-born filmmakers wrestled with those riddles, along with many, many, many others, in their pursuit of the little-known story of the world s biggest art heist, the 1990 St. Patrick s Day dead-of-the-night rip-off of Boston s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Two Rembrandt paintings, a Vermeer, a Manet and five Degas drawings were among the 13 works stolen that March night. At the time, experts put the value of loss at about $200 million. Today, the artwork is worth somewhere around $500 m

This is a Robbery: The World s Biggest Art Heist Review: Not as Good as an Afternoon in an Actual Museum | Arts

If you’ve 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 Patrick’s 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 Netflix’s new limited series “This is a Robbery: The World’s Biggest Art Heist.” Produced over the course of seven years, the four-episode show aims to shed light on the 31-year-old mystery.

Netflix s This Is a Robbery Review: Thrilling Art Heist Docuseries Is an Embarrassment of Riches

Netflix s This Is a Robbery Review: Thrilling Art Heist Docuseries Is an Embarrassment of Riches An infamous Boston caper makes for great TV Kelly Connolly Anne Hawley, This Is a Robbery: The World s Biggest Art Heist Netflix 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

12 Facts About the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Art Heist

12 Facts About the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Art Heist
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7 Paintings You Might Not Expect to Find in Boston

© MedioImages/Getty Images The Gardner Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts are two of the great art institutions in Boston where you can see these paintings. The collections in these institutions are significantly more diverse in terms of creators and subject matter than is represented by this list. Earlier versions of the descriptions of these paintings first appeared in 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die , edited by Stephen Farthing (2018). Writers’ names appear in parentheses. Grainstack (Snow Effect) (1891) In October 1890, Claude Monet wrote in a letter to his future biographer Gustave Geffroy: “I am hard at it, grinding away at a series of different effects, but at this time of the year the sun sets so quickly I cannot keep up with it….” He was describing his Grainstack series of paintings, and he went on to say that what he was after was what he called “instantaneity” the “enveloppe” of light that unifies a scene for an instant, before changing to

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