History behind the viral video of 'FBI' records paintings – NBC Boston

It is a case in which the people of Boston still fascinate: the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Art is called.

Tuesday marks 35 years since it happened, and now it is the subject of a viral social media video.

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“You could be anywhere, so it's fun to record the hypothesis, how you are in the basement of an oligarch? Or where are these paintings?” Gloria Schmitz, a resident of Boston, thought about the whereabouts of the invaluable painting.

“I think raids are cool. I mean the fact that they got through with it is just crazy,” added the student Scara Tu.

Three and a half decades ago, 13 works of art from the museum were stolen.

The museum renovates the space in which works of art worth half a billion dollars were stolen with frames in which the pieces once left empty, hoping that they will eventually find their way home.

The crime remains unresolved – but at the weekend a viral video gave the social media of the idea that the federal investigators had found the stolen work of art.

The video -the FBI agent shows who confiscated the stolen Rembrandt masterpiece from an art gallery in New York City, is part of the marketing strategy for Eric Aronson's film “Anyday Now”.

“I don't know, I heard that it was real, but it could also have something to do with my film,” Aronson told NBC10 Boston.

The film, which has its premiere at the Somerville Theater on Monday evening, is based on the 1990 raid.

“I have just invented a story based on some of these interesting characters that were around them, based on what I grew up here as I grew up here, and I made this soup of fiction, and I put together these funny characters and saw what they would do with each other,” said Aronson, who wrote, staged and produced the film.

Isabella Bible saw the video on Tiktok and says she was not deceptive.

“It's probably a really cool stunt for a really cool film,” she said.

And although she and her friends were not born when the raid passed, she says that it is very fascinating and hope that this social media video will attract more attention to the notorious crime.

“It is like a great way to obviously promote something,” said Adi Mc Kaskle.

“I think it will make people say: 'Ok, Isabella Stewart Gardner, what's going on there?'” Said Bible.

A spokesman says that the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum had no role in “Any Day” and it still offers a reward of 10 million US dollars for the return of the 13 stolen works of art that bring hope for the Hope of the painting.