Investigators may never locate the Gardner paintings, but Governor Baker might be able to retrieve this missing sculpture for Mass with a phone call
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
FIVE QUESTIONS WITH PHONTE
From Foreign Exchange student to teacher and Little Brother to big sibling
MY RESOLUTION: TO RECOVER THE BUST THAT WAS STOLEN FROM MASS AND IS SITTING IN STORAGE AT THE LACMA
Since state leaders, LACMA directors, and even the Beacon Hill auction house that sold the Brooks bust have all stonewalled me over the past eight years, I have resolved to do whatever it takes (so long as it’s legal) to get the bust back for Mass in the new year.
DIG THIS: RECORD FAIR, THIRD THURSDAYS, AND IN THE BODY OF THE WORLD
THU 5.19
Third Thursdays @ Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Shadows are spooky. They’re like drunken silhouettes of our inner selves and magnify our insecurities and shit. They can also play nice with our personal light and the triangulations of our emotional discord and open us up to enlightenment and self awareness. Or they can stand as the backdrop to ...
THE MYSTERY OF CHEZ TORTONI
The Gardner theft’s biggest question mark
DEAR READER: 4/21/2016
Letters from us and you
DIG THIS: 5.4 MILLION AND COUNTING STITCH IN, CANNIBAL CORPSE, AND CA$H FOR YOUR WARHOL
Eat it snow! We're going out tonight!
AS IF BY LIGHTNING: CARLO CRIVELLI
Crivelli’s first US exhibition, courtesy of the Gardner Museum
DIG THIS: MEAT STACKS, BEER & CIDER FEST, AND THE MASSACHUSETTS INDEPENDENT COMICS EXPO
Lots to see, eat, drink, and do here this week folks
BEAUTIFUL EXIT: OUTGOING ISABELLA GARDNER MUSEUM DIRECTOR REFLECTS BACK
In her first six months on the job, two thieves dressed as police officers entered the museum and stole over $500 million worth of art in the now infamous Isabella Gardner Museum heist.