Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum has tapped Anne-Marie Eze to become its associate curator of the collection. Ms. Eze has been with the museum since 2010, and served as its first Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow. The news comes to us via Artforum. Read More
Federal officials involved in investigating the 1990 Gardner Museum heist–considered to be the largest museum theft in history–have plans to intensify their search for the missing work, which is valued at $500 million. Two houses, with loose ties to the late mob boss Robert Guarente, have been searched in the last eight months, according to the Boston Globe. Read More
A swarm of FBI agents descended today on the Manchester, Conn., home of mobster Robert Gentile, whom some believe may have information connected to the 1990 robbery of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, The Washington Post reports. While the FBI says it is searching for weapons (the agency has a new warrant that allows for the use of “ground-penetrating radar”), Mr. Gentile’s attorney, Ryan McGuigan, asserts that officers are there to search for paintings stolen in the heist, including pieces by Rembrandt, Vermeer and Degas that are said to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Read More
