Most Important Stolen Paintings in the Last Twenty Years Searched by Special Agents

MADRID.- Some of the most important works by recognized geniuses like Picasso, Matisse, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Van Goh, Cézanne and Sorolla were stolen years ago and the Spanish National Police, which tracks them, has released a video with images of the most wanted paintings. These works of art, some stolen more than 20 years ago could reach the black market “at an exorbitant price, ” according to specialist officers working in their search and that belong to the Heritage Brigade, of [...]

Joan Jonas’s Reading Dante III at Yvon Lambert New York

NEW YORK, NY.- Yvon Lambert New York presents an installation by acclaimed American artist Joan Jonas. This show runs concurrently with an exhibition of new work by Mexican artist Stefan Brüggemann. Both exhibitions will be on view until May 8, 2010. This exhibition marks Jonas’s third at Yvon Lambert. Reading Dante III draws inspiration from Dante’s fourteenth-century Divine Comedy, a reoccurring topos of Jonas’s work since 2007. Each performance and installation becomes increasingly layered as the work transforms and develops. [...]

$5 Million Reward for Recovery Rembrandt’s “The Storm on the Sea of Galilee”

Boston, MA—When two men dressed as Boston police officers made off with 13 works of art valued at $500 million from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990, it was an art theft of unusual and shocking scale. Now the Federal Bureau of Investigations has announced it will mount a similarly ambitious effort to retrieve the paintings, offering a $5 million reward for their recovery in a billboard campaign along Interstates 93 and 495 in Massachusetts. The signs, which are [...]

FBI Hopes DNA can Help Solve 1990 Gardner Museum Art Heist

BOSTON.- The FBI is hoping advances in DNA technology can help solve a 20-year-old Boston art heist. A spokeswoman for the FBI’s Boston office tells The Boston Globe the lead agent in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum case is resubmitting evidence taken from the scene for DNA analysis. Agent Geoffrey Kelly said he could not disclose what evidence would be reviewed, but experts familiar with the case said it would probably include duct tape used to bind two museum security [...]

Sculpture of the Italian Renaissance at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

BOSTON, MA.- In Italy during the Renaissance (around 1400 to 1600), an innovative form of sculpture was developed using fine clay that was shaped and modeled before being fired in a kiln. Called terracotta in Italian (meaning “baked earth”), this type of sculpture often has been overlooked by scholars in favor of the more commonly known Renaissance sculptures carved in marble or cast in bronze. “Modeling Devotion: Terracotta Sculpture of the Italian Renaissance”, a new scholarly exhibition at the Isabella [...]