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" " 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 pursu...

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...

Federal investigators came to believe during the past decade that the key to the world’s biggest art heist — the still-unsolved 1990 theft of $500 million in paintings and other works from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum — might be found just outside Hartford. The feds thought the paintings might have been in or under the home of an old, convicted gangster, Robert “The Cook” Gentile, in Manchester where they dug up his yard and tore out walls looking for two Rembrandts and other treasures created by the likes of Vermeer, Degas and Manet.Gentile denies any involvement and t...

An Explosive Netflix Documentary About the $500 Million Isabella Stewart Gardner Heist Names the Gangsters Who May Have Done It The four-part series includes never-before-seen crime-scene photographs and other clues even the FBI never saw. This is a Robbery: The World's Biggest Art Heist. Courtesy of Netflix ©2021. “This was a solvable crime,” Colin Barnicle, director of the new Netflix documentary series But more than three decades after the most expensive art theft in U.S. history, Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s stolen paintings are still missing, with their empty frame...

Netflix's 'This Is a Robbery' director reveals more mysteries, theories about Gardner art heist FacebookTwitterEmail When you think of the “biggest art heist in the world,” your mind likely fills with romantic images of slinky cat burglars, "Ocean’s Eleven" schemers in three-piece suits or Tom Cruise dropping down from a glass ceiling. In all likelihood, you did not immediately think of seedy car repair shops and a bunch of mafia guys named Bobby. But that’s the portrait painted by “This Is a Robbery,” Netflix’s wildly engaging four-part docuseries hitting the platform Wednesday...