Kota Ezawa: The Crime of Art

This exhibition will bring together new and recent works related to Ezawa’s The Crime of Art series, a group of light-boxes and video animations that chronicle some of the most infamous and high profile museum heists in history. 

At the heart of this exhibition is a series of images that pays homage to the 13 artworks — including those by Degas, Manet, Rembrandt, and Vermeer — stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990. 

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.

Whether or not you go, Kota Ezawa: The Crime of Art presents photographs and reproductions from Ezawa’s recent exhibitions in Los Angeles, New York and Amherst featuring remakes of paintings stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. 

In addition, the book draws connections from his current project to other work from the early 2000s to the present that contemplate crime. Among them are his animated films The Simpson Verdict (2002) and The Unbearable Lightness of Being(2005), as well as his ongoing drawing series The History of Photography Remix, which includes hand-drawn re-creations of historic crime-scene photography. 

While focusing on a single subject, The Crime of Art brings attention to some of Ezawa’s key projects from the last 15 years, and coincides with a solo exhibition at SITE Santa Fe in 2017.

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