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On the morning of March 18, 1990, two thieves dressed as policemen walked into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and walked out with 13 pieces of art valued at half a billion dollars.
‘An art thief’s delight’: Netflix crime documentary examines heist at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum from 1990 Updated 10:15 AM; Today 10:15 AM In this March 21, 1990, file photo, a security guard stands outside the Dutch Room of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the site where robbers stole treasured art objects in Boston. The Mead Art Museum in Amherst, Mass., is offering visitors a unique glimpse of the 13 masterpieces stolen more than a quarter century ago from the Gardner Museum. The exhibit opening Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017, shows the work of San Francisco-based arti...
On the morning of March 18, 1990, two thieves dressed as policemen walked into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and walked out with 13 pieces of art valued at half a billion dollars. Twenty-eight years later, it remains the largest unsolved art heist. In September, WBUR and the Boston Globe are launching a podcast, titled Last Seen, that will dive into the heist's mysteries. (You could listen to the trailer and subscribe to be notified as soon as there are new episodes here.) Before that, we asked critic Lloyd Schwartz to take a look at the art our city lost: 'The Concert'