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Case

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Heist

In the early hours after St. Patrick's Day 1990, two men dressed as police officers talked their way into the Gardner Museum and left with thirteen works of art. It remains the largest unsolved property theft in history. With a current value of $1 Billion.

Story

Three Decades On, the Gardner Reward Still Stands at $10 Million

The museum reaffirms its offer as investigators mark another anniversary of the unsolved 1990 heist.

Essay

So You Stole a Masterpiece. Now What?

Mishap

Chocolate, Politics, and a Rothko

Days after Vladimir Umanets defaced a Rothko at Tate Modern, performance artist Jubilee Brown scrawled his name across another Rothko, 'Black on Maroon', using paint mixed with chocolate.

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