09
June 2027

The Greatest Art Heist in the World

Welcome to The Arts Society Uckfield, Lewes & Newick
Wednesday, June 9, 2027 - 14:30
Weald Hall
Uckfield Civic Centre Uckfield TN22 1AE
Online Event

The ‘impossible’ happened on 18 March 1990 in Boston Massachusetts.

The ‘impossible’ happened on 18 March 1990 in Boston Massachusetts; thirteen works of art, valued at $600 million were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. How it happened baffled museum staff, police and security experts. Huge spaces, once occupied by Vermeer, Rembrandt, Degas and Manet remain empty, a stark reminder of the devastating loss to the world, and witness to an audacious crime that has never been solved.

 

Georgina Bexon
Georgina Bexon, FRSA is an international art historian specialising in South Asian art and Consultant Art Historian at the Oriental Club. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society and guest speaker on luxury cruise ships for which she has developed lectures relating to Asian and Pacific destinations. She has lived and worked in UK, USA and Singapore and evolved a network of gallery and artistic connections in Europe, India and USA as well as giving lectures at European and UK universities, Christie’s Education and MoMA NewYork and conferences in Moscow, Paris, Lisbon. She is a Freeman of The Worshipful Company of Arts and Scholars.