Stranger than Fiction: Great Art Heists in History Presented by Anne Kenny-Urban
Schedule
Thu May 09 2024 at 06:00 pm to 07:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
4205 Victoria Blvd, Hampton, VA, United States, Virginia 23669 | Hampton, VA
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Free to the publicDiscover what Japanese gangsters, bear spray, and daring boat getaways have in common with noteworthy art thefts. In this lecture, you will travel the globe learning why museums from Amsterdam to Zimbabwe have been targets for thieves and what tools they use to elude detection. Find out who got caught…and who did not.
About Instructor
Anne Kenny-Urban is the Executive Director of Agecroft Hall & Gardens, a house museum that showcases daily life in a Tudor manor house. Anne earned her BA at Princeton University, her MA in art history at the University of Chicago, and her MBA at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. Before her move to Agecroft, she worked for VMFA for nearly a decade.
This program has been organized by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and is supported, in part, by the Paul Mellon Endowment and the Jean Stafford Camp Memorial Fund.
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Where is it happening?
4205 Victoria Blvd, Hampton, VA, United States, Virginia 23669Event Location & Nearby Stays:
