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Wouldn’t it be amazing if the paintings (Rembrandt’s “Storm on the Sea of Galilee,” and Vermeer’s “The Concert,”) reappeared in their frames which have remained empty in the Gardner Museum for the past 23 years?

FBI says it has identified the thieves in Gardner Museum heist; paintings’ location still unknown - Boston.com

In a stunning twist in a case that had frustrated investigators for decades, federal law enforcement officials said today that they had identified the people who stole $500 million worth of masterworks in a daring heist from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990.
The officials also said they had determined where the artworks had traveled in the years after the robbery, which is considered the greatest art theft in history. But the officials said they did not know where they were now and were appealing to the public for their help in finding them….
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Law enforcement officials have been puzzled for years by the heist. The robbers entered the museum and tied up two night watchmen in the early morning hours of March 18, 1990. After years of investigative dead ends, DesLauriers said, the probe “accelerated” in 2010 and “crucial pieces of evidence” were developed identifying the robbers and their associates.
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bellle-epoque

I miss you

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Björk opens today. Timed tickets are required for the “Songlines” portion of exhibition. Read ticketing info before your visit. 

[Björk. Still from “Black Lake,” commissioned by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and directed by Andrew Thomas Huang, 2015. Courtesy of Wellhart and One Little Indian]

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bellle-epoque

I’ll make the trip to NYC just to see Black Lake.

#bjork#moma#nyc#art#black lake
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Then and Now: Recreated Art Using Plastic and Pieces of Trash

For his ongoing project, an American artist, Chris Jordan, creates visual representations of abstract statistics surrounding global issues and contemporary American culture, with pieces — some of them recreations of famous artworks — assembled using thousands of pieces of trash items and more.

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Upon first meeting Anders Zorn, Isabella Stewart Gardner said, “Oh my! I have the feeling we’ll either be enemies quite soon or very, very good friends forever.”  Zorn’s exultant portrait of the charismatic collector portrays her on the balcony of the Palazzo Barbaro in Venice, enjoying a fireworks display. In addition to Zorn and his wife, Gardner invited several other 19th century notables along on her Venetian sojourn, including Edith Wharton, Henry James, John Singer Sargent, and Claude Monet! Now on view.

Anders Zorn (Swedish, 1860-1920). Isabella Stewart Gardner in Venice, 1894. Oil on canvas. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Photos © Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston / The Bridgeman Art Library

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such joy. always a fav

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Lloyd Schwartz writes about love and loss associated with the Dutch painter Vermeer:

Some years ago, I wrote a poem  called “Why I Love Vermeer,” which ends “I’ve never lived in a city without a Vermeer.” I could say that until 1990, when Vermeer’s exquisite painting The Concert was one of the masterpieces stolen from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. It’s still missing. The French conceptual artist Sophie Calle, who loved that Vermeer, put together a show called Last Seen, a series of photographs of the empty frames of the stolen paintings, combined with comments on the paintings by people who worked at the museum. It’s a haunting and elegant show, though seeing this exhibit, which is now on view at the Gardner, then walking through the rooms with the empty frames still in place, made me feel more melancholy and hopeless than ever about this enormous loss.

image from “Last Seen” from the Boston Globe

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