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The ‘FBI’ Seized a Stolen Rembrandt in a Gallery Raid; It Was a Movie Promotion Stunt
The stunt cleverly tested—and demonstrated—a new dimension in which performance art can gain traction today: as content.
WBUR8d
Empty restored frames highlight Gardner Museum heist 35 years later
In 1990 thieves disguised as police stole 13 artworks from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Their empty frames have been ...
Did the FBI Really Confiscate a Stolen Rembrandt at a NYC Art Gallery?
The painting was reportedly “Storm on the Sea of Galilee,” painted by Rembrandt van Rijn—and famously stolen during the ...
The New York Times13d
Want to be Alone With a Rembrandt and a Queen? Here’s Your Chance.
Yet “The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt,” a delectably wonky show at the Jewish Museum in Manhattan, explores a little-known chapter in art history when artists of the Dutch Golden Age ...
BBC3y
Behold the man! Good Friday reflections on a Rembrandt
Neil MacGregor reflects on one of the National Gallery's most important paintings ... of Rembrandt’s Good Friday meditation – Ecce Homo. Pilate, the Roman governor, is presenting Jesus ...