Art Industry News: Cecilia Vicuña Unveils Monumental Woven Sculptures at Tate + Other Stories
Plus, the Elgin Marbles might have been illegally imported, and the Rijksmuseum denies it is sinking due to fungi problem.
Source: artnet.com
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Investigators Probe Cold Case Murder for Clues to Gardner Museum Heist
An unsolved murder in 1991 is being revisited by authorities for possible clues about the infamous art heist at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, reports Bob Ward for Boston 25 News. In the over three decades since thieves made off with treasured artworks valued then at $500 million, including a rare Vermeer and Rembrandt's only seascape, investigators have looked into the security guards, New England crime figures and others as culprits. The March 1990 heist of 13 still-missing ...
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Gone but not forgotten: Mobster Robert 'The Cook' Gentile surfaces in new lead connected to $500M Gardner Museum art heist
Gentile died in in September, insisting to the very end that he had nothing to do with the Gardner heist — in spite of evidence to the contrary. Now, detectives outside of Boston are finding new clues in a long unsolved underworld murder that puts Gentile in the company of a group of mobsters long suspected of involvement in the crime — just months after it happened and decades earlier than originally thought.
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