Before I write about my visit to the Dallas Museum of Art, I want to say something about the foiled stunt that climate kooks planned this past Saturday at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. A group called Extinction Rebellion hoped to vandalize the empty frames from which paintings by Vermeer and Rembrandt were cut in the notorious 1990 theft. Saturday was the 33rd anniversary of the unsolved, late-night heist.
The Gardner learned that Extinction Rebellion hoped to mount a “guerrilla art installation” in the Dutch Gallery, where the frames still hang to remind visitors of the biggest and most brazen robbery in American museum history. Rather than endanger art, visitors, and staff, the Gardner’s director closed the museum for the day. Pissed and stymied, Extinction Rebellion held a fake die-in in front of the Gardner. Why does no one ever actually die in these left-wing die-ins? It seems disingenuous as well as a missed chance to reduce the number of crazy people.
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