The art of the steal: History’s greatest museum thefts
Hindustan TimesWhat is it about art and jewel heists that so capture the public imagination? The fake policemen It took two men and just over an hour to execute the most high-value single art theft on record. One night in March 1990, two men dressed as police officers told security guards at the Isabella Steward Gardner Museum in Boston that they had been sent to check on suspicious activity. The first theft occurred in 1994, when a team of four thieves used a ladder to climb to the first floor of Norway’s National Museum, smashed the window, picked the painting up off the wall and made off with it, all in under a minute. They walked into the Munch Museum in Oslo in broad daylight, pulled their guns on startled visitors, and simply yanked two frames off the walls: Scream and a work titled Madonna.
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