Review: This is a Robbery: The World’s Biggest Art Heist, directed by Colin Barnicle.
After dreaming for many years of visiting Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, I was surprised by its dour presence when I finally arrived on its doorstep. The original building presented a rather austere face to the world, its stolid facade dwarfing an unobtrusive entrance. However, once inside, my every longed-for fantasy was realised.
The internal courtyard glowed with light sucked down from the glass ceiling. Palms and exotic ferns flourished in this hothouse environment. Visitors stood in awe it looked like a Venetian palace, rooted like a tropical orchid in a frost-bitten landscape. In every room, masterpieces softly glowed within their gilt frames; antique furniture filled each nook, vases, and objects d’art on every surface. It was magical.
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This Is a Robbery: The 4 Main Theories About Who Stole the Paintings at the Gardner Museum
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This Is a Robbery gives us a thrilling and thorough breakdown of the infamous 1990 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum art heist in Boston. The weekend of St. Patrick s Day, two men disguised as police officers broke into the Gardner Museum and stole $500 million worth of artwork, including rare pieces by Vermeer, Rembrandt, Manet, and other legendary artists. 30 years later, the case remains unsolved, and the artwork is still missing. We don t know about the pieces whereabouts, but there have been plausible theories about who stole the art at the Gardner Museum. Read ahead for the leading theories that the true-crime docuseries explores!
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What is it about?
This Is A Robbery delves into the 1990 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist, during which two thieves dressed as Boston police officers stole art worth millions from the museum. We learn that the robbers bound and gagged two security guards, before proceeding to loot the museum over an 81-minute period. The four-part true crime series takes its name from something one of the thieves reportedly said before taking the guards down to the basement, where they were discovered (by actual police officers) the next morning. The crime remains unsolved.