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The largest UK heist on record in terms of the amount stolen was the 1990 City bonds robbery, when a courier carrying 301 bearer bonds worth £291.9 million (equivalent to £840 million in 2023) [4] was robbed on a small City of London street. All but two of the certificates were subsequently recovered, with the heist revealing the global ...
Two thieves dressed as Boston cops made off with $500m in stolen art from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum more than three decades ago. No arrests have ever been made, the case remains unsolved ...
The Whitworth is an art gallery in Manchester, England, containing over 60,000 items in its collection. The gallery is located in Whitworth Park and is part of the University of Manchester . In 2015, the Whitworth reopened after it was transformed by a £15 million capital redevelopment that doubled its exhibition spaces, restored period ...
Connor had worked with Donati in past art heists [150] and claimed the two cased the Gardner Museum [149] [151] where Donati took interest in the finial. [149] Connor also claimed that Houghton visited him in jail after the heist and said that he and Donati organized it and were going to use the paintings to get Connor out of jail. [150]
Documentary fans are going to love Netflix’s latest addition, which examines one of the most notorious thefts in history.Introducing This Is a Robbery: The World’s Biggest Art Heist. The ...
The 1990 robbery of Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum remains a part of that institution’s life to this day, as empty frames hang on the wall marking the spots from which paintings were ...
This Is a Robbery: The World's Biggest Art Heist is a 2021 American documentary miniseries about the 1990 robbery of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. [1] [2] [3] The four-part series was directed by Colin Barnicle, who also produced alongside his brother Nick Barnicle. The series was produced over a seven-year period, beginning in ...
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum was robbed in 1990, losing paintings and items valued at over $500 million.. Art theft, sometimes called artnapping, is the stealing of paintings, sculptures, or other forms of visual art from galleries, museums or other public and private locations.