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The $500 Million Gardner Museum Heist, an epic art caper infographic

Xeni Jardin at 1:40 pm Fri, Mar 22, 2013

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Hilary "chartgirl" Sargent has created another epic infographic, explaining something complicated and interesting: this time, it's the Gardner Museum Heist (background here).

Here's the PDF in full-rez glory.

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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  • http://gard3.com/ G3

    “The Gardner Heist.”

    Yeah, baby. Great day to be a narcissist.

  • noah django

    the sculptures are so different than the rest of the haul.  makes me wonder whether they just caught the eye of the thieves for their personal take after scooping the 2D stuff that is more obviously premeditated.

    • DewiMorgan

      Or they are two heavy paperweight-like objects suitable for weighting down some stolen canvas and paper on a cart.

  • Souse

    What’s sad is visiting the museum and seeing the empty frames on the wall.

  • Diogenes

    They left out Brian McDevitt.