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Another book I picked up at the Portland Art Museum in September was “The Rescue Artist,” by Edward Dolnick.

An entertaining whodonit about the theft of Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” from the National Gallery in Oslo, I’d put the book down in the middle–distracted by the myriad other things in my life–until NetFlicks delivered “Stolen,” a very weird documentary about the theft of $300 million worth of art from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.

In 1990, thieves absconded with 13 masterpieces — including works by Rembrandt and Vermeer — from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, pulling off the greatest art heist in U.S. history. Rebecca Dreyfus’s investigative documentary delves into this modern mystery, piecing together clues gleaned from archival documents, art critics, historians, collectors and informants (both… Continue reading