Thieves Stole a Van Gogh Worth Millions Last Week. Here’s What Happens Next.

What do the criminals do with 'The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring,' and how could they get caught? If you have trouble reading this message, [view it in a browser](. [Thieves Stole a Vincent Van Gogh Painting Worth Millions Last Week. This Is What Happens Next.]( On March 12, the Singer Laren art museum located 18 miles south east of Amsterdam closed its doors due to the Coronavirus. Then last week, under cover of darkness, thieves broke the glass doors of the museum and absconded with an 1884 oil painting by Vincent van Gogh called The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring. The painting had never been appraised, but similar works by van Gogh have fetched tens of millions at auction.[Read More]( [Mothers and Fathers Are Dying Alone Amid Strangers and Machines]( While all the attention is being paid to the effects of the pandemic in big cities, and to the criminally irresponsible—and, possibly, the irresponsibly criminal—response from the federal government, the coronavirus has seeped into places far from the national spotlight. Attention is only now being focused on the incredible disparities in the infection rate—and the death rate—between white Americans and minority Americans, and between rich Americans and poor Americans. (Typically, Senator Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Ayanna Pressley were out ahead of field on this.) This has brought attention to the small places in which the pandemic is having a devastating impact. Native Americans on reservations are garrisoning themselves as best they can. The country’s prisons have become nightmarish incubators, with the virus ping-ponging around captive populations until governors like Andy Beshear in Kentucky decide that the safest thing is to let low-level inmates out.[Read More]( [I Can’t Answer My Daughter's Questions About COVID-19]( My daughter is four years old and has questions. She always has questions. That’s the nature of being four. But now, she has more. We’ve had the same conversation after breakfast nearly every day for the past two weeks of self-quarantine. It happens after my wife goes to work in our home office, which was once my office, but now, because my wife can’t go to work, it’s hers.[Read More]( [This L.A. Photographer Turned a Coronavirus Lockdown Into an Intimate Portrait of Our Times]( A year ago, Saam Gabbay spent the night of his birthday on the desert rocks of Joshua Tree listening to Allan Holdsworth’s "Questions" on repeat, completely alone, sobbing. Gabbay is a commercial photographer and director whose superpower is enabling and coordinating a crowd into a community, of finding a way to foster a “What if?” moment. He is the spider of many webs; being alone is not his thing. This year’s birthday was going to be different.[Read More]( [10 Must-Read Stories for Escaping Reality Right Now]( We’re in a moment in time where if we’re lucky we’ve nothing but time on our hands—otherwise nobody would be baking sourdough bread for the first time or going half-blind trying to assemble that 4,000-piece puzzle of Monet’s waterlilies. We can document our boredom all we want—here’s me in a mask, me having Zoom cocktails, me baking sourdough bread for the first time—but once that’s exhausted, we’re still hungry for substance. We yearn to feed our head and our souls.[Read More]( [A New Episode of Tiger King Is Dropping This Weekend]( For all the millions who spent a small sliver of quarantine watching the absurd tale of Joe Exotic, here's some good news: Netflix has officially confirmed that a new episode of Tiger King will drop on Sunday, April 12 at 12:01 a.m. Netflix announced the news in a tweet on Thursday afternoon, confirming rumors that a follow-up episode to their smash hit docuseries was in the works. This after-show will be hosted by Joel McHale, and include interviews with John Reinke, Joshua Dial, John Finlay, Saff, Erik Cowie, Rick Kirkman, and Jeff and Lauren Lowe.[Read More]( [Read More on Esquire.com]( [Join today!]( Follow Us [Unsubscribe]( [Privacy Notice]( esquire.com ©2020 Hearst Communications Inc. All Rights Reserved. Hearst Email Privacy, 300 W 57th St., Fl. 19 (sta 1-1), New York, NY 10019