Stranger than Fiction: Great Art Heists in History

Come discover what Japanese gangsters, bear spray, and daring boat getaways have in common with famous art thefts. You’ll travel the globe learning why museums from Amsterdam to Zimbabwe have been targets for thieves and what tools the thieves used to elude detection. Find out who got caught…and who did not!

Hopewell Library

Thursday, November 10

7:00 pm

 
ARLS is partnering with the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts to bring you Stranger than Fiction: Great Art Heists in History, presented by VMFA’s budget director, Anne Kenny-Urban. Ms. Kenny-Urban has worked in a variety of capacities and venues in the art world, including Christie’s auction house in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Field Museum of Natural History. A native Richmonder, Ms. Kenny-Urban earned an AB in comparative literature from Princeton University as well as a diploma from the Christie’s Fine Arts Course in London. She holds a master’s degree in art history from the University of Chicago and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide Partnerships and is funded, in part, by the Jean Stafford Camp Memorial Fund.

The library has added several new titles to its collection that illuminate some of the most famous art heists. Check them out.

For more information or to register, please call (804) 458-6329 X 1005 or see the librarian at the Information Desk.