'Art Heist Experience' gives audience chance to solve 30-year-old cold case The performance is based on the infamous heist in Boston, where 13 works of art valued at $500 million were stolen. The case has yet to be solved. Credit: FSCJ Art Series Published: 4:19 PM EDT April 28, 2021 Updated: 12:09 PM EDT April 29, 2021 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — An interactive show by the FSCJ Artist Series is giving people the chance to live out the fantasy of being a sly detective solving a major heist. The Art Heist Experience is based on the true story of the robbery of 13 works of art, valued at more than half a billion dollars. The heist happened on March 18, 1990 at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the FSCJ Artist Series says.