Newton, MA—On March 3, Anthony Amore, Director of Security at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, will be speaking on the “Three Most Famous Art Crimes in Massachusetts,” including the heist of 13 masterpieces from the Gardner on March 18, 1990. The event will take place in the East Wing building, room 200 from 3:00 to 4:50 pm.

More than 20 years have passed since the Isabella Steward Gardner Museum Heist, where 13 pieces valued today at $600 million were stolen. Works included pieces by Vermeer, Rembrandt, Degas, and Manet. The art and the thieves have yet to be found.

Anthony Amore has been leading efforts to track down the missing artwork. Hired by the Gardner Museum in 2005, he has been described as “among the most innovative, and most effective, museum security directors in the world” (Art and Crime: Exploring the Dark Side of the Art World, Praeger, 2009).

A graduate of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, Amore is experienced in national security, law, intelligence, and crisis management with federal government agencies including the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Administration (TSA). He was instrumental in the reorganization and regionalization of national homeland security efforts. He is a regular contributor to The Huffington Post and has been a columnist for Boston Herald. His upcoming book, Stealing Rembrandts: The Untold Stories of Notorious Art Heists, will be released in July.

For more on Amore, you can visit his blog at http://anthonyamore.wordpress.com/.

This event is hosted by BC's Art Law Society.