THE ART OF CRIME

TALES OF ART THEFT

Karen Neubauer
11:00 am – 12:00 pm Thursdays, February 20 and 27 and March 6

From daring thefts to dramatic art house scandals, this course explores the complex world of art thieves, their unique stories of successes and failures, and the dangerous obsessions of those who acquire art illegally.

Optional reading for this course:

• Stolen, the authorized account of the heist from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

• The Art Thief by Michael Finkel

• The Art of the Steal by Christopher Mason.