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‘This Is a Robbery’ Investigates a Famous Art Heist: TV Review

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Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticThe 1990 robbery of Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum remains a part of that institution’s life to this day, as empty frames hang on the wall marking the spots from which paintings were removed.

The case remains unsolved — vexingly so. The items stolen, including works by Vermeer and Rembrandt, were cut out of their frames and have never materialized on the black market, meaning they exist in a kind of limbo, presumably somewhere but unaccountable.

They’re ghost frames on the wall, missing pieces of art history on a criminal’s wall somewhere, or being used to bolster a deal, or kept unseen in a vault.That’s what’s at stake in “This Is a Robbery,” a Netflix documentary series directed by Colin Barnicle.

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