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Reading Public Museum gets antique frame for Washington portrait

The portrait of George Washington at the Reading Public Museum now has a frame worthy of its illustrious subject. The museum recently unveiled the striking enhancement to its 230-year-old painting by ...
Artnet

Amateur Sleuth Solves Mystery Behind U.K. Museum’s Fabergé Frames

An actor-turned-sleuth has solved a Fabergé mystery at the Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, helping the U.K. museum identify two women pictured in a pair of rediscovered frames in the collection. In ...
The Harvard Crimson

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: What the Robbery Can Teach Us About Loss

On March 18, 1990, during what should have been an uneventful night shift, 13 of the art pieces in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum were stolen, including five works by Degas, Rembrandt’s only ...
The Boston Globe

Gardner Museum marks 35th anniversary of infamous heist with restored — and empty — frames

Thirty-five years after a pair of thieves dressed as policemen cut Rembrandt van Rijn’s “Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee” from its frame and stole 12 other artworks from the Isabella Stewart ...