The robbery of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston in 1990 is the biggest modern art theft to date. The robbers masqueraded as police and managed to dupe the night guards and in a relaxed manners were able to steal dozens of works of art while they took eighty-one minutes and multiple trips to their car. They wore no masks, it was all on video, and the guards distinctly remember their faces. That only adds to the mystery of how these two men were able to calmly and methodically steal these seemingly random (not the most valuable in the gallery) works of art through alarms and safety triggers sounding. There has been no real trace of either these men or of the the stolen works in any world market or private collection. Private investigators do though have over 10,000 leads, none of which are at all guaranteed accurate or have led to any findings so far. Join discussion...

A later painting by Rembrandt was sold for $25.8 million USD at Sotheby's in New York. This beats his old record of $28.7 million in 2000. This painting is acctually considered one of the last still in private hands, and one of the most significant bodies of work from the later decades of his life. Join discussion...