{"id":50473,"date":"2026-07-29T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icanvas.com\/blog\/?p=50473"},"modified":"2026-07-29T12:32:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T17:32:20","slug":"the-gardner-museum-heist-the-500m-art-theft-nobody-has-solved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icanvas.com\/blog\/the-gardner-museum-heist-the-500m-art-theft-nobody-has-solved\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gardner Museum Heist: The $500M Art Theft Nobody Has Solved | iCanvas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Gardner Museum heist: On March 18, 1990, two men disguised as police officers talked their way into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. In 81 minutes, they stole 13 works of art now valued at roughly $500 million, the largest unsolved art theft in history, according to the FBI’s own case files<\/a>. Thirty-six years later, not one piece has been recovered, and no one has ever been arrested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year, the case got a new chapter. Geoffrey Kelly, the retired FBI agent who led the investigation for 22 years, published a book on it, and according to his interview with ARTnews<\/a>, he believes investigators have identified who carried out the theft. The art, on the other hand, is still missing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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