‘She doesn’t quite fit’ – the story of a magical museum, a maverick personality and a $500m art heist

Sometimes, smaller collections pack the biggest punch. Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, scene of the world’s largest art heist, is the perfect example...

Erika Rumbley, Director of Horticulture, installing Hanging Nasturtiums at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Photo: Jessica Rinaldi/Boston Globe via Getty

Pól Ó Conghaile

Would you go to a gallery to see an empty frame?

“There’s kind of an amazing irony that people come here to see an absence,” says Diana Greenwald, curator at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.