[photo credit: Pasadena Village]
The free talk features arts enrichment facilitator Helane Rheingold in a conversation with Pasadena Village, as she lays out “the fascinating history of stolen artworks involving artists such as Rembrandt, Gauguin and Van Gogh, and pieces both returned and still missing to this day.”
Rheingold has led multiple interactive programs for Pasadena Village, including “Conversations with Art” on Black history topics, “West African Art,” “1619: History of Chicano Art & Artists,” and “Black Portrayals by European Artists,” helping participants learn how to look at, interpret and analyze works of art.
Her latest presentation highlights the real drama behind headlines: the still-unsolved 1990 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft in Boston, lightning-fast Van Gogh museum burglaries, and the recovery of a pandemic-era Van Gogh stolen from a Dutch museum and later handed back via art detective Arthur Brand, known as “Indiana Jones of the art world.”
Pasadena Village, a nonprofit community of adults 55 and older, sponsors the program as part of its mission to foster vital independent living through mutual support, enrichment and inclusiveness.
Thieves in the “Night”: The Fascinating History of Art Heists will run on Wednesday, Jan. 28 at 2 to 3:30 p.m. Village Office Community Room, 236 W. Mountain St., #113, Pasadena. For more information, call (626) 765-6037 or visit https://www.pasadenavillage.org/events/4260-thieves-in-the-%22night%22:-the-fascinating-history-of-art-heists.
