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Sun 7 Mar, 2010 04:13 pm
Quote:Wednesday, February 24, 2010 at 11:00 AM EST
The Gardner Heist and Stolen Art
Rembrandt, Self-Portrait, ca. 1634, one of the works stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston on March 18, 1990.
The biggest museum art theft in history happened twenty years ago next month "
half a billion dollars worth of art stolen in the middle of the night from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston by thieves dressed as police officers.
Guards handcuffed and bound with duct tape. Paintings " of Rembrandt, Degas, Vermeer " grabbed from frames and whisked into the night.
They’ve never been recovered.
Global art theft is big business. So where are these paintings? The museum is still on the trail. We’ll ask what they know.
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Tom Ashbrook
http://www.onpointradio.org/2010/02/stolen-art
http://www.gardnermuseum.org/information/theft_thumbnails.asp
i feel really bad about this, but i had some wall space to fill
@djjd62,
Don't be freaked when I reach for my cell phone. I'm not calling the FBI.
Nope. I'm just calling for a ... um ... pizza delivery. Um... that's the ticket. Just stay where you are for the next 3 hours and answer the door with your hands above your head
djjd!
you have to wonder who has them, they can't display them openly, is it some lonely rich guy who just links off to his underground gallery and sits and looks at his ill gotten gains
@djjd62,
One theory is that indeed. The egotistical crime boss who has them just for his own personal gratitude and pride.
@tsarstepan,
look at the pretty pictures kitty
I traded them all for an Elvis on Velvet in the Walmart parking lot.
@dyslexia,
should have held out for a dogs playing poker as well
Its a biggie, but , to me, the largest art "heist" was the "Sonderauftrag Linz", which was a carefully executed heist of the artistic patrimony of several EUropean Nations and many more "disappeared" families. Much of that has since been finally returned but there are several Billion dollars worth of treaures still unaccounted for.
@tsarstepan,
I saw an hour long show on this a few weeks back. The gallery had extremely poor security.
@tsarstepan,
Quote: with your hands above your head djjd!
Which one ? djjd1, djjd2, djjd3, djjd4...which one ?
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