"The world's biggest unsolved art heist happened almost thirty years ago, and we're still no closer to finding what happened to all that priceless art.
It happened on the night of March 18th, 1990, when two art thieves, disguised as police officers, tricked security guards at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum into letting them inside late at night. They handcuffed the guards and made off with thirteen famous paintings by artists like Rembrandt ("Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee"), Vermeer (" The Concert"), and Flinck ("Landscape with an Obelisk"), for a total value estimated to be around $500 million.
There have been a lot of crazy ideas about who masterminded this unsolved mystery, from mobsters to a California screenwriter to the Irish Republican Army to South Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger. But so far, there've been no promising leads. However, the museum hasn't given up hope of finding the lost art. In January, they extended indefinitely their $10 million reward for anyone who helps recover the missing masterpieces. Until then, it remains one of the art world's top unsolved mysteries."
https://www.wbur.org/artery/2018/08/20/lastseen-gardner-heist-missing-art
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