Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Encyclopedic art collection spanning centuries, including a Rembrandt once stolen at gunpoint and later ransomed back.
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This guide to the Museum of Fine Arts opens with a small oval Rembrandt, the Portrait of Elsbeth van Rijn, and the April 1975 afternoon it vanished off this wall in broad daylight. It follows Myles Connor, a Massachusetts rock singer turned art thief already facing charges over two stolen Andrew Wyeths, and a taunt from a state police officer that seems to have given him an idea. You'll hear how he and an accomplice walked in disguised and scuffled with the guards on the way out. Stand close to the canvas and look for the thick ridges of paint the guide keeps returning to.
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