Can Netflix help solve the Isabella Stewart Gardner art heist?

Published: April 9, 2021, 6 a.m.

b'On this week\'s podcast: the world\\u2019s greatest art heist. As a new Netflix documentary hits our screens, who stole the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum\\u2019s paintings by Rembrandt, Vermeer and Manet, among other items, and are we any closer to finding them? We talk to Jeff Siegel, producer of the new Netflix series This is a Robbery about the 1990 heist at the Gardner museum, in Boston, Massachusetts. As Denmark brings in the "coronapas", a form of vaccine passport, we talk to Axel R\\xfcger of the Royal Academy of Arts in London about whether such a scheme could work in the UK\'s museums and galleries, and to Tania Coen-Uzzielli of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in Israel, where they have a \\u201cgreen pass\\u201d scheme, from which museums are exempt. And in this episode\\u2019s Work of the Week, Susan Foister, deputy director of the National Gallery in London, discusses Jan Gossaert\\u2019s Adoration of the Kings\\u2014the subject of a show at the gallery which has now been developed into an experience for smartphone users.


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