Anthony Amore
- Art Crime Authority
- Investigative Leader
- New York Times Bestselling Author
Anthony Amore Speaker Biography
Anthony Amore is one of the world’s foremost experts in the field of art theft investigations and prevention. For more than two decades, he has been the Director of Security 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.
He has written five books, including national bestsellers. His latest, The Rembrandt Heist, was named one of Smithsonian’s Ten Best History Books of 2025.
Anthony teaches a graduate-level course in Art Crime for Harvard University’s Museum Studies program. He is a practicing private detective.
He is a much-sought after public speaker and talking head and regularly appears on CNN, FOX, and the BBC and other international news networks to talk about major art heists.
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Stealing Rembrandts: The True Story of International Art Theft
Art theft is a multi-billion dollar per year illicit industry, and the world’s most significant heists share one thing in common: the priceless works of Rembrandt. The great Dutch Master’s paintings are known for their value by everyone, from high school dropouts to museum curators. While Hollywood has portrayed the theft of high-value paintings as the work of dashing, likeable thieves working to steal art for evil, reclusive geniuses, in fact that’s nothing like the reality of art theft. Instead, it’s much more interesting. Amore takes his audience behind the scenes of the most notorious of these heists, telling the true story of art crime from the conception of the crime to the recovery of the art.
The Art of the Con: Notorious Fakes, Frauds, and Forgeries
The famed former director of the Metropolitan Museum, Thomas Hoving, famously said that 40% of the art hanging on the walls of the museums and galleries of the world are fakes. Art forgery scandals continue to dominate the pages of the industry’s newspapers and, in recent years, have led to the closing of some of the world’s oldest and most esteemed galleries. Though talented copyists are involved in the most famous scandals, Amore describes how the true art in art scams is not on the canvas but in the con itself.
