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In 1990 thieves disguised as police stole 13 artworks from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Their empty frames have been restored and remain as stark reminders of the unsolved art heist.
I have an empty picture frame sitting on my office desk. The frame sits there staring back at me reminding me I have yet to put a picture in the frame. After 53 years of pastoring Baptist churches ...
The empty frames have stayed on the walls. The museum was once Gardner’s home and she wanted to ensure that her expansive art collection was displayed in the same manner she had arranged it.
On March 18, 1990, during what should have been an uneventful night shift, 13 of the art pieces in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum were stolen, including five works by Degas, Rembrandt’s ...
An empty picture frame by Danish artist Jens Haaning titled "Take the Money and Run", hangs at the Kunsten museum in Aalborg, on Sept. 28, 2021.
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In 2021, a Danish artist gave empty frames to a museum that paid 532,000 kroner for his art. On Monday, a Copenhagen court ordered him to return the amount to the museum, the Guardian reported. "I ...
An empty picture frame by Danish artist Jens Haaning titled "Take the Money and Run", hangs at the Kunsten museum in Aalborg, on Sept. 28, 2021. (Henning Bagger/Ritzau Scanpix via AP) COPENHAGEN, ...
FILE – An empty picture frame by Danish artist Jens Haaning titled “Take the Money and Run”, hangs at the Kunsten museum in Aalborg, on Sept. 28, 2021.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Danish artist who was given a pile of cash by a museum in northern Denmark to create a piece for its exhibition on labor conditions two years ago submitted two empty ...
FILE - An empty picture frame by Danish artist Jens Haaning titled "Take the Money and Run", hangs at the Kunsten museum in Aalborg, on Sept. 28, 2021. Haaning, commissioned by the museum in ...