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“Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World’s Stolen Treasures’’ by Robert K. Wittman.Undercover agent in Gardner heist spills the beans
New York Times blog - April 21st, 2010 22:41
Robert K. Wittman, a retired F.B.I. special agent, has a book coming out that asserts his efforts to recover masterpieces stolen from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum were undone by infighting at the bureau. Wittman says he had a lead in the biggest art heist in U.S. history, in which works by Vermeer and Rembrandt have been missing for twenty years now. A French middlemen with ties to a criminal gang in Corsica approached him about the paintings, but one of his superiors ...

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Interior of the Kluge estate. Image: Sotheby's
The contents of billionaire Patricia Kluge's Albemarle House, a lavish take on high-style country living in the English tradition, will be auctioned by Sotheby's on June 8 and 9. ...
Image: Christie's International.
Frenchwoman Martine Marie-Pol (1870-1939), Comtesse de Béhague, a noted collector of antiquities and Islamic art, once owned an exquisite Kirman rug. The rare rug descended in her ...
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Intimate letters and manuscripts written by Mark Twain, as well as photographs of the American author, will be sold by Sotheby's in June. Among them is a 64-page, handwritten document ...
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Ansel Adams (1902–1984) Leaf, Glacier Bay National Monument, Alaska, ca. 1948. From What Majestic Word, In Memory of Russell Varian, Portfolio IV (1963) Gelatin silver print ©2010 The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust. Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas P1966.11.3 Amon Carter Museum Exhibits Ansel Adams Photographs
Release Date: 22 April 2010
  Works by one of the world’s most widely recognized and celebrated photographers will go on view this spring at the Amon Carter Museum. Ansel Adams: Eloquent Light features 40 photographs by the artist and runs from May 29 through November 7, 2010. Admission to the Carter is free. ...

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