![]() In the early morning of 18 March 1990, a security guard at the Gardner Museum buzzed in two men with fake moustaches dressed in Boston police uniforms. And for the general public, it helps that this true crime tale devolves into yet another Boston mob saga. The series still makes for a head-scratching unsolved mystery for the vast Netflix audience that is new to the cold case. The hyperbolic subtitle, like the oft-used adjective “legendary”, is now part of Gardner lore. So we see in This Is a Robbery: The World’s Biggest Art Heist, a four-part documentary series on the Gardner theft now streaming on Netflix. After 30 years of investigations of the theft of 13 works valued at more than $500m from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, the legend is still all there is to print. ![]() In the movies, the ruling maxim is “print the legend”.
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