Put Your Detecting Skills to the Test at the Kravis
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By GERRY BARKER
North Palm Beach Life Published April 29, 2021 WEST PALM BEACH_ Can you can solve one of the art world's greatest unsolved mysteries? Now's your chance. "Art Heist Experience," now playing at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, takes you inside the daring, real-life robbery at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, which took place March 18, 1990. As detailed in the Netflix series, "This Is a Robbery," two thieves disguised as police officers made off with 13 works of art valued at $500 million. To this day, none of the art works have been recovered and no arrests have been made, despite 30-plus years of investigation by the FBI and law enforcement. But, of course, that was all before you get a crack at it. Produced by Right Angle Entertainment, guests are provided a digital dossier with background information and clues about the four main suspects. Led by FBI agents, you walk as a group -- observing social distance and masked -- to several locations outside the Kravis to interview the suspects. Let's start the show . . . |
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The ne'er-do-well on the left is Gardner Museum musician-turned-security guard Rick Abath. As related by our FBI guide on the right, he had plenty of explaining to do about his breach of protocol on the night of the heist. Was it an inside job? Photos by North Palm Beach Life |
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Now we come to suspect number two, David 'Teflon Don' Turner, introduced by the agent on the right.
A career criminal, his prison sentence was mysteriously reduced. Why? You need to dig the dirt on that.
A career criminal, his prison sentence was mysteriously reduced. Why? You need to dig the dirt on that.
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Suspect number three is party boy Brian McDevitt, a slick-talking con man if there ever was one. Funny thing -- he planned a heist just like the one at the Gardner in Glen Falls but it never came off. Better keep a close eye on that one. |
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Last but not least, the agent on the right introduced us to suspect four, Myles Connor, Jr., the self-professed "world's greatest art thief." Speaking to us from prison, the wisecracking hood claimed
ignorance. We can buy that. |
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At the close of the show, you get to vote on "who done it." And our vote went to . . . no, you'll have to reach your own conclusions. "Art Heist" is at the Kravis through May 16, and tickets start at $41.50. Wear comfortable shoes and do your homework. You may be in line for a big reward!
