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Master Thieves: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist

with Stephen Kurkjian

It is the 35th anniversary of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist and the crime remains unsolved!

Thirteen pieces of art including masterpieces by Rembrandt, Vermeer, Degas and Manet were stolen from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum just after midnight on March 18, 1990. Join us as investigative reporter and editor Steve Kurkjian, author of Master Thieves: The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off The World’s Greatest Art Heist, talks about the case. Steve will discuss who did it and why and offer his idea on how to recover these long-missing masterpieces.

For adults. Registration required. Please email Ari at apappas@minlib.net with questions.

About Steve:

A Boston native, Stephen Kurkjian spent nearly 40 years as an editor and reporter for The Boston Globe before retiring in 2007. He was a founding member of The Globe’s investigative Spotlight Team, and as a reporter and later editor of the team, he shared in three Pulitzer Prizes and won more than 20 regional and national reporting awards. He also served for six years as chief of The Globe's Washington Bureau where he oversaw the work of 10 reporters and covered the Justice Department and the White House. Educated in the Boston Public Schools, Kurkjian graduated from Boston Latin School in 1962, as well as Boston University and Suffolk Law School. He now lives in Manomet.

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