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BOSTON--Two weeks after the Gardner Museum theft, investigators had little progress to report in the probe of the biggest art heist in history, and insurers disputed the museum's claim that it could not afford to insure the stolen works against theft...
...museum named after millionaire iconoclast Isabella Stewart Gardner announced days after the break-in that the works were not insured for theft...
Instead, the Gardner offered a $1 million reward for information leading to the return of the paintings. This ransom money -- "reward" is a euphemism -- may work, if it does not gum up the investigation with half the flakes and crazies from Boston to Miami. But it does not dispose of the ghastly possibility that one of the greatest of Vermeer's paintings (along with other things of lesser significance) may be destroyed by the thieves as too hot to handle...
...blue-collar side of the glittering system whereby art, through the '80s, was promoted into crass totems of excess capital. Sotheby's and Christie's tacitly recognized this last week when, after conferring with the museum board and the FBI, they volunteered the $1 million reward money for the Gardner -- a touching p.r. gesture, like a cigarette company giving money to a cancer ward...
...sensational heist at Boston's Gardner Museum...