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🗓️ 28 February 2018
⏱️ 32 minutes
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0:00.0 | This is a Glass Box Media Podcast. You're going to do. On March 18th, 1990, the most audacious art heist of all time took place at the Isabella |
0:32.0 | Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Two men dressed as police |
0:36.1 | officers were admitted into the building by security, claiming to be responding to a disturbance |
0:41.8 | call. |
0:43.0 | In 81 minutes, 13 pieces of art were stolen. |
0:47.0 | Among the portraits, stripped from their frames were works by Vermeer, Dega and Rembrandt. |
0:53.0 | Estimated at half a billion dollars, the heist has been categorized as the largest and most frustrating |
0:59.3 | of all time. |
1:00.3 | Theories of their whereabouts and those who perpetrated the crime are abundant. |
1:04.0 | In this podcast series we will dig as deep as possible into the case, the theories, |
1:10.0 | and the social and economic impact the greatest unsolved art |
1:14.3 | hist of all time had on the community. |
1:17.0 | This is empty frames. A hist story. Okay, welcome here, Lance, our first episode of Empty Frames. For this episode |
1:40.0 | we are going to go through a little bit of the timeline of this incredible theft, and I don't say incredible trying to be complementary. |
1:49.0 | Well, we say that because when you do a search on most expensive art ice the Isabella Stewart Gardner |
1:55.1 | is typically number one. And right at the top here I just want to mention that if |
1:59.2 | you have any information about the stolen artworks or the investigation, |
2:03.0 | please contact Anthony Amore, |
2:05.0 | director of security for the Gardner Museum |
2:08.0 | at Theft at Gardner Museum.org. |
2:11.0 | Now, we were contacted by our mysterious Mr. Kay and through his resources we are able to |
2:20.0 | dive into this incredibly complex and elaborate case. |
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