01 November 2021, 12:00 am
Stealing van Gogh
Programme Type
Films and Exhibitions,
Webcasts
End Date
07 November 2021, 11:59 pm
Stealing van Gogh | ( Click here to watch ) | (59 min; 2018; English)
Director: Julian Hendy
Art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon uncovers the truth behind the greatest art heist of the 21st century. In December 2002, two priceless paintings were stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam in a brutal and audacious robbery.
A brilliant and fascinating look at how stolen art is used as a black-market currency – canvas banknotes, basically – and how it can be used as a crook’s ultimate bargaining chip to reduce a sentence.