Art Heist Many events have been canceled or postponed due to coronavirus concerns. Please check with the organization before going to any event.
Photo by Diane Smithers Based on a true story of the world’s biggest art caper,
Art Heist is a true crime walking show where socially distanced groups will walk to multiple locations to gather clues. The amateur gumshoes interact with a wild group of wily career criminals, slimy con men, rumpled art recovery specialists, a possible inside man, a gentle psychopath, and the larger-than-life but definitely real self-proclaimed Greatest Art Thief of All Time. The story is based on the biggest art heist in history and took place on March 18, 1990, when two thieves disguised as police officers entered Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in the middle of the night, telling guards they were investigating a disturbance. Valued at a half a billion dollars, 13 works of art, including paintings by Rembrandt, Vermeer and Manet wer
The eight-armed Stele of Lakshmi-Narayana from around the 10th or 11th century, depicting two Hindu deities in an amalgam Courtesy of the Dallas Museum of Art
A 10th- or 11th-century stele that disappeared from a Hindu shrine in Nepal in 1984 and was later lent by an American collector to the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) is being turned over to the Nepalese Embassy in Washington, DC for repatriation.
The stele, carved in grey stone, depicts two Hindu deities, Vishnu and his consort, Lakshmi, as a composite. It had been on loan to the Dallas museum since 1990, soon after it was auctioned at Sotheby’s in New York.
For those of us who still believe in taking public health and safety precautions, let us present to you this week’s list of best virtual bets. Each one you can either enjoy from the comfort of your home or, for those who’d like to get out of the house responsibly, outdoors and socially distanced.
Join Aperio and resident conductor Marlon Chen on Friday, March 5, at 7:30 p.m. for
Four Seasons, but the piece, a collection of four tangos by
nuevo tango master Astor Piazzolla, actually wasn’t written with the intent to parallel the famous work. Subsequent musicians connected the dots, and Aperio along with violinist Chloé Trevor will present an arrangement by composer Leonid Desyatnikov, which “unequivocally” links them together. You can view the livestream, also featuring a performance of Heitor Villa-Lobos’s