![]() Shapiro’s first novel, “ The Art Forger” - but that word “seems” functions on a number of levels here.Ĭlaire Roth, the novel’s narrator and title character, is struggling to get her painting career off the ground after a scandal three years earlier left her on the shadier edges of the art world. Now another of the stolen masterworks seems to have turned up in B.A. ![]() “Is it a crime to want nice things?” Burns asked. And two years ago on “The Simpsons,” Springfield police came across the same painting in the basement of Mr. In May, Stephen Colbert confessed that he’d stolen Vermeer’s “The Concert,” the most valuable of the missing paintings. ![]() More than two decades later, authorities have still failed to produce any solid leads in the case, but pop culture has had fun locating the loot in a number of unlikely places. In March 1990, two men disguised as police officers stole 13 works of art from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum - works collectively valued as high as $500 million, the largest art heist in history. ![]()
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