SCA's Annual Distinguished Speaker Series on November 7th at the New Bedford Whaling Museum with Anthony Amore: an art theft expert, investigator, and security practitioner.  Presently, he is Director of Security and Chief Investigator at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, where he is charged with the ongoing efforts to recover thirteen works of art stolen from the museum on March 18, 1990.

​In 2011, he co-authored the Wall Street Journal true-crime bestseller Stealing Rembrandts: The Untold Stories of Notorious Art Heists.  His second book, The Art of the Con: The Most Notorious Fakes, Frauds and Forgeries in the Art World was published in 2015 and was a New York Times Crime Bestseller.  

The Rembrandt Heist. A true Crime tale of unbelievable friendship, loyalty,criminal genius, and a staggeringly audacious plot to steal one of the world’s most valuable paintings - and return it. One of Smithsonian Magazine’s Ten Best History Books of 2025.

He will be autographing this book at his talk.