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June 2026

The Greatest Art Heist in the World by Georgina Bexon

Welcome to The Arts Society Mallorca
Tuesday, June 2, 2026 - 19:30
Hotel Artmadams, Carrer del Marquès de la Sènia, 34 Palma de Mallorca 07014
Online Event

An intriguing account of the 1990 theft of thirteen masterpieces from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

We are pleased to invite you to our upcoming evening talk, which tells the extraordinary story of one of the greatest unsolved art thefts in history.

On March 18th, 1990, the impossible happened: thirteen works of art, valued at a total of $500 million, were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Museum officials, police and security experts were completely baffled as to how the very bold and unusual thieves had carried out this remarkable robbery.

To this day, these great masterpieces have never been recovered, representing a devastating loss to the museum and its public. The spaces where works by Johannes Vermeer, Rembrandt, Edgar Degas and Édouard Manet once hung are still marked by empty frames, a shocking reminder of this dramatic event.

The talk recounts the story of the robbery and the fascinating police investigation that followed, revealing how, why and by whom the theft was committed, yet leaving the crime officially “unsolved”.

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THE ARTS SOCIETY ACCREDITED LECTURER

Ms Georgina Bexon

Georgina is an art historian specialising in South Asian art who has lived and worked in the UK, USA and Singapore. Her practice includes lecturing, writing, consulting and collecting and she has developed a network of gallery and artist connections in Europe, the USA and India, which she visits regularly.  

Consultant Art Historian at the Oriental Club in London and an official tour guide at Tate Modern, Georgina is also a guest speaker on luxury cruise ships for whom she has developed a series of art talks relating to Asian and Pacific destinations. She has been a visiting lecturer at UK universities, presents talks at leading art institutions including Christie’s Education New York and the Museum of Modern Art, Moscow and speaks at international art conferences, most recently in New York, Paris, London and Lisbon.

Georgina holds a BA in Art History from Southampton University, an MA in Arts Management and Policy from City, University of London and an MA in Art History from SOAS, University of London. Georgina is a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Arts Scholars and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Asiatic Society.