New Gardner Museum Art Heist Documentary Offers a Fresh Take for the ‘Unsolved Mysteries’ Crowd

When it took place in the early hours of March 18, as celebrations for St. Patrick’s Day were still going strong, the theft of 13 artworks, including a major painting each by Rembrandt and Vermeer, from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum became international news. Almost immediately, it was labeled the largest art heist the world had ever seen. Now, 31 years later, with the missing artworks valued together at $500 million, it still retains that title. In the intervening years,