Word: gardners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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BOSTON--Two weeks after the Gardner Museum theft, investigators had little progress to report in the probe of the biggest art heist in history, and insurers disputed the museum's claim that it could not afford to insure the stolen works against theft...
...museum named after millionaire iconoclast Isabella Stewart Gardner announced days after the break-in that the works were not insured for theft...
Museum officials said the cost of such insurance would exceed the museum's $2.8 million operating budget. Also, Mrs. Gardner's will bars the museum from buying or installing replacements for stolen works even if they were insured, they said...
...blue-collar side of the glittering system whereby art, through the '80s, was promoted into crass totems of excess capital. Sotheby's and Christie's tacitly recognized this last week when, after conferring with the museum board and the FBI, they volunteered the $1 million reward money for the Gardner -- a touching p.r. gesture, like a cigarette company giving money to a cancer ward...
...sensational heist at Boston's Gardner Museum...