The Gardner Heist

The True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft

by Ulrich Boser

A fascinating and very nicely written story about how thieves broke into the Isabella Gardner Art Museum in Boston and stole seven paintings including one of the thirty-six known Vermeers, a Rembrandt and a Manet.

The Yellow House

Van Gogh, Gauguin and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles

by Martin Gayford

A very nice, in-depth look at what happened and what life was life in the time that Gauguin lived with Vincent just before he cut off part of his ear.