In 1990 thieves disguised as police stole 13 artworks from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Their empty frames have been ...
In the meantime, the museum has invited artist Skooby Laposky to help mark the anniversary with a sound activation based on Rembrandt’s “Storm.” The piece references the empty frame with bra ...
"We don't add to the museum. We don't sell anything ... "I think any time people consider how many people come to see the empty frames, that number would be dwarfed by the number of people ...
Empty frames remain hanging in the museum as a placeholder for the missing works, and as symbols of hope awaiting their return. Rembrandt van Rijn, Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee ...
What a coincidence that the largest art heist happened in a museum whose curator wanted nothing in it to change. Today, the ...
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist remains the single largest property theft in the world. The artwork has never been recovered.
FBI agent Geoffrey Kelly led the investigation into the world’s largest art heist and one of Boston’s most enduring mysteries ...
It’s April and spring is here. Our offerings for April include a couple of outside pursuits and if the weather goes Dutch ...
a plaque marks the empty frame from which thieves cut Rembrandt's "The storm on the Sea of Galilee," which remains on display at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. In 1997, the museum ...