The Scone ADFAS presents this lecture by Georgina Bexon
Tuesday November 4th 2025, 6.30pm
Scone Arts & Crafts Hall Kingdon St, Scone
Members free, Guest $30
Refreshments will be served after lecture.
Note: cash, cheque or bank transfer prior to the lecture only (no credit card).
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GEORGINA BEXON FRSA FRAS
Georgina Bexon is an international art historian who has lived and worked in the UK, Europe, USA and Singapore. Her practice includes lecturing, writing, consulting and collecting and she has developed a network of gallery and artist connections in Europe, the USA and India, which she visits regularly. Consultant Art Historian at the Oriental Club in London and an official tour guide at Tate Modern, Georgina also presents at leading art institutions and international art conferences, most recently in New York, Paris and Lisbon. Georgina holds a BA in Art History from Southampton University, an MA in Arts Management and Policy from City, University of London and an MA in Art History from SOAS, University of London. Georgina is a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Arts Scholars and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Asiatic Society.
THE TRUE STORY BEHIND THE WORLD’S BIGGEST ART HEIST
On 18 March 1990, the ‘impossible’ happened – thirteen works of art, valued at a total of $500 million, were stolen from the great Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Museum officials, police and security experts were completely baffled as to how this had happened. These great masterpieces have never been recovered; a devastating loss to the museum and its public. This talk relates the story of the fascinating police investigation into the missing paintings by Vermeer, Rembrandt, Degas and Manet; resulting in knowledge of how, why and by whom the robbery was committed but leaving the crime officially ‘unsolved’.