Simon houpt biography

PERSONAL:

Male.

ADDRESSES:

Home—New York, NY

CAREER:

Globe and Mail, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, columnist, —. Previously worked on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation television program Undercurrents.

WRITINGS:

Museum of the Missing: A History of Art Theft, foreword by Julian Radcliffe, Key Porter Books/ Sterling Publishers (New York, NY),

SIDELIGHTS:

The brazen theft of three Rembrandts and a Vermeer from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in served as the inspiration for Simon Houpt's first book, Museum of the Missing: A History of Art Theft. Hailed as a well-researched and thorough study, the book explores art theft throughout history and discusses its many consequences.

Houpt, who covers art and culture for the Toronto Globe and Mail, includes chapters on war looting, art heists instigated by wealthy collectors, and other incidences of art larceny, and also provides information on various investigations and recovery efforts.

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