Stephen Kurkjian: Masterpieces and Master Thieves
One of the most acclaimed investigative reporters in the country will visit the Martin Institute this fall.
Stephen Kurkjian is a forty-year veteran of The Boston Globe. He is the paper’s former Washington bureau chief and a founding member of its investigative Spotlight Team. Kurkjian has won more than twenty-five national and regional awards, including the Pulitzer Prize on three occasions. He is a graduate of Suffolk Law School and lives in Boston.
Kurkjian joins us to talk about his book Master Thieves. This work explores the largest art theft in history, carrying the world’s largest reward offer, longer on the FBI’s list of biggest unsolved art crimes than any other save one. Two men disguised as Boston Police officers tricked their way into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum after midnight, tied up two night watchmen and made off with an estimated half billion dollars worth of artwork including three works by Rembrandt and a Vermeer masterpiece.
This event is sponsored by the Martin Institute for Law & Society.