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Spencer Reinhard and Warren Lipka had grown up together in adjacent subdivisions on Lexington's south sidefully planned residential tracts wedged in between the city and the gradually receding horse country that rings it. In the fall of 2004, Warren Lipka moved into the unfinished basement. Because their campuses were only a mile apart, they assumed they would stay close, but as with most freshmen, their assured identities and easy expectations muddied once they hit campus. In high school, Warren, a lanky six-footer with a mop of brown hair, was a popular jock and a class clown who delighted his classmates by bear-hugging his nemesis, the dean of students, at graduation. And I pledged a fraternity, but I really didnt get into that too much. Buried in the files was a series of e-mails to Christies in New York. Waiting for the law to snatch them was nerve-racking, but they went on with their lives as if nothing had been amiss. As she was heading toward a display case, Gooch felt a tingling on her right arm and collapsed to the floor. The L.P.D. Bam. I see Warren and Eric bust out of the back door, Spencer says, describing what he saw unfold from his lookout position. And so I see Warren go back.. . The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. [Warrens] like, Come on up, Eric remembers. Faced with overwhelming evidence, they all eventually confessed. The fourth, Charles Chas Allen II, had been transferred to a federal medical center in Lexington.) computers in the Lexington field office. Several weeks before Spencer was approached by Warren about the fake-ID business, he had been on a freshman-orientation tour of Transy, including the library and its exceptional collection of rare books and manuscripts. Boom. So I walk off happy, come back to the States, and blow Spencer's mind.. When an agent called, he got a voice-mail recording, This is Spence. Hes probably thinking I blamed him for [stealing] the money, which I never really did. In the fall of 2003, Warren left for the University of Kentucky on a full athletic scholarship, eager to take his game to the next level, and with vague plans of getting into politics. His clumsy attempt to clear his name, in a no-holds-barred interview with BBC, Gabby Petitos Life WithAnd Death ByBrian Laundrie. The truth is, but for one obvious, big mistakethe trip to Christiesthey probably would have gotten away with it, a Lexington police detective told me. Warren jumped at the opportunity and recruited another adrift freshman, his old high-school soccer teammate Eric Borsuk, as a partner. His work and practice demonstrates not only the redemptive power of art but the struggle of all artists to articulate and convey their voice and message in an increasingly noisy and distracted world. Around Halloween, Warren drafted a working plan, which he presented to the other three in the basement. He also didnt have photos, photocopies, documentation, or even the slightest ability to intelligently discuss the books. We felt bad., Warren and Eric rode the elevator to the basement, but they couldn't find the fire exit. Spencer, meanwhile, was short, wiry, distant, and in many ways Warrens opposite: an over-scheduled, over-achieving, diamond-tipped drill of a kid who excelled at whatever he set himself to. Even if we wanted to, they won't let us. He was just so unbearable. By five P.M., Warrenas Beckmanwas back on the phone with Gooch explaining that he had missed his appointment because he had been out of town on business. The three then take the staff-only elevator down to the bottom floor and escape out the west fire exit. More important, the basement was secluded. By one o'clock that afternoon, the 227-year-old liberal-arts college was swarming with campus police, uniformed Lexington Police, plainclothes detectives, and forensic teams, as well as local news. During a meeting in the basement, Warren convinced the other two that they were going to need a fourth, principally to help haul the nearly 250 pounds in Audubon folios out of the library. Warren made an appraisal appointment at Christies in New York for Walter Beckman, a pseudonym inspired by the soccer star David Beckham. As a precautionary measure, they left the books in the car. In fact, they all tell me that as the planning picked up in the months before the heist, the three of them came to believe that it was their best and perhaps last chance to create a viable life for themselves after college. The Lexington Police Department's commercial-burglary squad was assigned to the case. Spencer assembled his outfit with even greater care. Over the phone and by e-mail, Beckman had asked to view, among other items, a first edition of Charles Darwins On the Origin of Species and four double-size folios of John James Audubons Birds of America. Just days before their arrests the three even took in a movie: Ocean's 12. Currently an artist-in-residence at Blue Macaw in Boscobel, Reinhard says his first trip to Jamaica has stirred his creative senses, and he couldnt be happier. Spencer gives me 500 bucks, in my pocket. She offered to take his place. Phase 1 begins at the bungalow when all four get into what Warren designated the G.T.A.V., or the Go-to-and-Away-Vehicle, all disguised as old men. In the morning, Warren says, he left two messages with Leckeys secretary and two more that afternoon. The next morning, all nerves, he left for the meeting site, a caf within walking distance. You know, most people look at that painting as if it was a plan destined to fail, but at the same time, we were planning to fail., In a few years well be released. I never intended to paint them and I resisted the idea but in the end I couldnt help but indulge the irony. Again, Warren thought otherwise. Quit struggling, B.J., or do you want to feel more pain? she remembered the man saying. Warren and Eric got out of the G.T.A.V. In their senior year the two became local celebrities after a dramatic photo appeared in the Lexington Herald-Leader showing Lexington Catholic star goalkeeper Lipka and Tates Creek forward Reinhard battling midair during a playoff game. It immediately had kind of sparked my imagination, like a fantasy., O.K., so were sitting in the car, smoking weed, Warren recalls, and then Spencer said, I just took a tour in that library, and theres shit sitting there you wouldnt believe. How the hell would we do this? And he said, I know a guy in New York.. Starting with a 1970s Pierre Cardin canary-yellow blazer that had belonged to his grandfather, he wore a dress shirt with an ostentatiously large collar and a gold silk scarf. Slattery was arrested and convicted of one successful and two attempted robberies. Inside were the books, wrapped in sheets and pillowcases. The painting, in digital form, would become a popular screen saver on the F.B.I. Chas cursed Warren as an incompetent, and condemned the other two as burnouts, demanding that the three figure out a way to get the books appraised so they could move on to the next phase of the plan. All these girls I could draw better than when I was in sixth grade.. He was whisked into a squad car. Warren called Gooch back to change Walter Beckman's appointment to three P.M. On the morning of December 16, Warren's carefully scripted plan began to unravel almost immediately. detective says. Though I showed artwork briefly with Ann Tower Gallery, my career as an artist has been limited to private sales and commissions, including contributing a mural to PRHBTN in Lexington in 2018. In exchange, Barry slipped him an e-mail address with instructions to sign off any communication with the name Terry. A uniformed doorman cheerily welcomed both boys into the lobby, where they informed reception that they were there for Mr. Walter Beckman's appointment with Thomas Leckey, Christie's rare-book specialist. During a meeting in the basement, Warren convinced the other two that they were going to need a fourth, principally to help haul the nearly 250 pounds in Audubon folios out of the library. That was the point all along. from an unsuspecting friend and got his hands on zip ties, a wool cap, electrician's tape, and bedsheets. Add to cart Category: Prints Additional information We'll all be still young, Warren says. I still feel like I have a long way to go to reach my full potential, and I think Jamaica will be an integral step in that direction., American visual artist Spencer Reinhard, an artist-in-residence at Blue Macaw in Boscobel, St. Mary, The ornithologist in Spencer Reinhard takes gaze. The minimum-security Federal Correctional Institution in Ashland, Kentucky, 125 miles from Lexington, houses approximately 1,200 inmates in multi-story cellblocks encircled by concentric layers of razor-topped fencing and fortified guard towers. Twelve million dollars, just sitting there? Spencer elected not to consider his consequent incarceration as the loss of his best years, but rather sought to salvage his fledgling artist career by utilising his time to develop his practice and to consider new methods and media. In early 2006, they began serving their sentences in federal prison, with no possibility for parole. It was only a tennis final, Eric says, but that final that day was actually harder than I thought it was going to be. On the second-floor landing, Chas, in high-end flannel pajamas and thinking they were being robbed, pulled out a derringer, only to drop the weapon at the last moment. The boys readily agreed, and she escorted them through the offices to a small conference room. Warren jumped at the opportunity and recruited another adrift freshman, his old high-school soccer teammate Eric Borsuk, as a partner. Shortly thereafter he was introduced to a Lexington Catholic alumnus who was making an easy living in identity theft. very unofficial.. In fact, wedged in their backpacks was nearly three-quarters of a million dollars' worth of books and manuscripts: an 1859 first edition of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection ($25,000), an illuminated manuscript from 1425 ($200,000), a set of the two-volume 15th-century horticultural masterpiece entitled Hortus Sanitatis ($450,000), 20 original Audubon pencil drawings ($50,000), and Audubon's A Synopsis of the Birds of North America ($10,000). There were all sorts of theories as to why they had done it: they were drug addicts; they had amassed large gambling debtsor Lipka's father had, and the boys did it to save the family's honor (the variant most popular with the local papers). Warren, under an alias, would make an appointment with Gooch for that afternoon to view the books they wanted to steal. He said, You do that and you are free then to give them to us when you can. O.K., great. Undeterred, Warren introduced himself as Terry, firmly shaking hands before sitting down. That was the plan. Yet he did allow and encourage the interpretation of his art as an abrogation of space and time and, above all, history. Late one Thursday afternoon in mid-February, the two friends bought a bag of weed and drove the 700 miles to Manhattan in Spencers Acura Legend. The thieves left no fingerprints behind, and there were almost no witnesses. For Spencer it all started with a series of mild disappointments. Near the boiler he also jerry-rigged a greenhouse for growing marijuana. When the four boys were arrested the news was met with disbelief, as none of them had been in any serious trouble before. After a quick powwow in the stacks, the conspirators decided to abort the mission for the time being and retreated to the bungalow. Spencer was born in 1984 in Lexington Kentucky. Although the two hadn't really been in contact in the first few months of school, Warren knew that Spencer's artistic talents would be an asset. For one, its cheaper, and this allowed me to work less and spend more time with my young daughter. I cant really get into too much specifics, Eric says, but we were doing all kinds of little scams: making fake IDs, making little things here and there. He feared being restricted in any way. (Because Spencer was a Transy student, he risked being recognized in the library.) And Eric calls to him. Once safely back in Lexington, the two created a Yahoo account and sent off the e-mail in which they claimed to have unspecified rare books in their possession, using the name Terry, as instructed. Once I was off of probation, I was able to travel and eventually made a trip to Colombia where I painted my first large-scale mural and met my wife Marcela. Abstraction allows me to explore multiple paths of my creative desire. . Mr. Beckman now wanted these books appraised. Artistically, it offered me the freedom to make the work I wanted to make without concern for my audience. Eric couldn't get hold of his friend's car, leaving Chas to borrow a Dodge Caravan his mother was fortuitously selling the next day, the boys say. That was the point all along. and local detectives. By far the most common theory was that the heist had been just a frat prank that spun way out of control. I was not in my ordinary largely white existence anymore. believing that they had escaped with next to nothing. Vanity Fair may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. Two weeks into his stay, Reinhard, an ardent ornithologist, whose works draw inspiration from late Dutch-American abstract expressionist Willem de Kooning, feels that his greatest artistic asset is his versatility. The stun guns Warren had ordered never arrived, so he drove around town and returned with a Black Cobra Stun Pen, and had Spencer zap him and Eric to test its knockdown power. Spencer's life story and his practice are indelibly linked, thus the works he has created are a highly personal meditation on the journey Spencer Reinhard experienced. He thought he was much better than everybody else, and he got to the point where he wasnt like us. Spencer Reinhard Please send me the price list, I am interested in purchasing an original Reinhard After Audubon 2014 to Present After prison I took up a casual interest in birds. All rights reserved. The meeting ended after 30 minutes, and Ms. Halloran escorted the two out, assuring them that she'd be in touch after conferring with her superiors on the best way forward. The stun guns Warren had ordered never arrived, so he drove around town and returned with a Black Cobra Stun Pen, and had Spencer zap him and Eric to test its knockdown power. On the second-floor landing, Chas, in high-end flannel pajamas and thinking they were being robbed, pulled out a derringer, only to drop the weapon at the last moment. I never intended to paint them and I resisted the idea but in the end I couldn't help but indulge the irony. She described one of the young men as about six feet tall, with bleached-blond hair, well dressed in a nice suit, and very talkative. He scored a joint before checking into a hole-in-the-wall and falling asleep. onto nearby Fourth Street and careened through traffic before stopping a mile farther on, in front of a predominantly black housing project. Phase 3 is the escape, which involves switching the G.T.A.V. I was expecting to play soccer quite a lot, but the coach was a completely different person once I got on the team, he tells me. But even at that point, it became apparent that Warren and Spencer wouldnt be able to pull it off alone. Spencer was born in 1984 in Lexington Kentucky. Spencer would communicate with Warren from a cell phone, which Warren would steal from a student in the morning. Seeing something in the wayward Warren, the preppy grifter pitched him the idea of selling fake Kentucky driver's licenses in the U.K. dorms. Im not going to lie. If you want to do something, you should figure out how you are going to do it. The next morning, all nerves, he left for the meeting site, a caf within walking distance. Buried in the files was a series of e-mails to Christie's in New York. Now the hard partwe have to steal them. I was nervous. I can't really get into too much specifics, Eric says, but we were doing all kinds of little scams: making fake IDs, making little things here and there. They got security around that? Nonchalantly, very nonchalantly, I mean, just kind of shooting it between us. If you were referring only to my paintings featuring birds, I would say its my ability to render the birds accurately, but in a way that gives them personality.. Titled A Plan to Fail, it was part of a series he had done on the crime for a local art gallery while out on bond. Phase 1 ends when the G.T.A.V. He said his name was John. The ground floor quickly filled with shouting cops, screaming young women, and a few dazed men in boxer shorts. For Spencer it all started with a series of mild disappointments. Phase 1 ends when the G.T.A.V. The minimum-security Federal Correctional Institution in Ashland, Kentucky, 125 miles from Lexington, houses approximately 1,200 inmates in multi-story cellblocks encircled by concentric layers of razor-topped fencing and fortified guard towers. Now we can't ever go back there. So we go back to the guy in Lexington and we say, Listen, we want to go somewhere, we want to go out of the country, and we need documentation, Warren explains. Inside were the books, wrapped in sheets and pillowcases. We need to just get over this stuff, Eric tells me, explaining how Warren re-entered his life after their falling-out the previous semester. I'm not going to lie. I'd heard about them before, but I didn't know anything about them. Before, in college, growing up, we were being funneled into this mundane, nickel-and-dime existence. notified all the airports in the area, dispatched officers to surrounding neighborhoods, and called the F.B.I. In all my art classes I was the only guyin with a bunch of girls who didn't have any idea what they wanted to do. Chas turned the G.T.A.V. I took my zip ties and I put them around her feet and put them around her arms. It was about at that point that Gooch remembers Warren saying, Quit struggling, B.J., or do you want to feel more pain?. I guess when we did that she went upstairs to check on B.J.. We spoke about his paintings, especially A Plan to Fail. Not what I expected, not what I wanted it to be, Warren says. As far as they could see, there were only two ways out: either getting away with the crime or getting arrested for it. Among them was the 2002 photo from the Lexington Herald-Leader of Spencer and Warren playing soccer. ). Along the way a stoned Spencer read aloud from the purloined first edition of On the Origin of Species, particularly fascinated by the section on how the ears of domesticated animals have drooped over generations due to the disuse of the muscles of the ear from the animals not being much alarmed by danger.. from an unsuspecting friend and got his hands on zip ties, a wool cap, electricians tape, and bedsheets. Eric would stay on the main floor while Warren subdued Gooch in the Rare Book Room. and Lexington police put the pair under surveillance. Serving a seven-year prison sentence following his involvement in a notorious heist (portrayed in the film American Animals), Spencer Reinhard was committed to not losing "the best years of his life." He turned to his own art, determined to refine his craft and technique. As she was heading toward a display case, Gooch felt a tingling on her right arm and collapsed to the floor. An American Animals coloring book, as well as original drawings Skip to content Spencer Reinhard Home After Audubon Prison Period Abstract Abstract color series Post prison Abstract About Shop Commissions Contact Menu Home After Audubon Prison Period Believe me, you haven't heard the last of us yet.. I wouldnt trade it for anything., Looking ahead, the artist divulged that he is due to have a show next year in Los Angeles and has much to produce. The phone number was registered to a Gary Reinhard of Lexington, Kentucky. The meeting initially hit a snag when Barry was put off by the boys youth. In high school, Warren, a lanky six-footer with a mop of brown hair, was a popular jock and a class clown who delighted his classmates by bear-hugging his nemesis, the dean of students, at graduation. All four, now 22, children of privilege, products of elite Lexington high schools, are serving seven-year sentences for their parts in the crime. The press invariably described them as good boys from good familiesupper-middle-class kids afforded every opportunity, the ones with the most to lose. When she asked for contact information, Spencer gave her his cell-phone number. It was just funny because we've been in a lot of places that they've been, Eric says. Spencer was arrested in a simultaneous raid on his dorm room at Transy. We told B.J. In a duffel bag by his bed an F.B.I. I was nervous. It Was Catastrophic: Inside Prince Andrews Misguided Bid to Explain Away Epstein, In the wake of Jeffrey Epsteins arrest and apparent suicide, Prince Andrew moved from the fringe of a swirling underage-sex scandal toward its white-hot center. They got security around that? Warren asked Spencer. Near the boiler he also jerry-rigged a greenhouse for growing marijuana. He scored a joint before checking into a hole-in-the-wall and falling asleep. The whole operation would have to be completed by 12:30 P.M., as the boys say Chas needed to return the Dodge Caravan to his mother in time for her to sell it, and Spencer and Eric had to get to their final exams in sociology and tennis, respectively. 's computers. In his talk, Spencer speaks to how he found a unique, unexpected sense of freedom and honesty in his art, not constrained by societal influences or monetary pressures. So I walk off happy, come back to the States, and blow Spencers mind.. After a short wait, a young Christies employee, Melanie Halloran, came out to apologize, as Mr. Leckey, due to an impending public auction, would be unable to see them. In all my art classes I was the only guyin with a bunch of girls who didnt have any idea what they wanted to do. They stopped talking entirely and disbanded. By far the most common theory around town was that the heist had been just a frat prank that spun way out of control. you know, it's. it was. Warren also ordered four stun guns over the Internet. The others spent time in the library, too, taking notes on staff routines and viable escape routes. Warren had been convinced after spotting a suspicious man loitering near the yellow bungalowwhen he stepped outside, the man disappeared into an unmarked white van with tinted windows and sped off. It was definitely a terrifying thing. After several phone calls Warren managed to arrange a meeting in New York. I was kind of skeptical, continues Spencer, but the way I rationalized it was: it's the biggest auction house. They all pled guilty to federal charges of robbery and. Like, they were doing something serious, talking about the heist, going over the plan, and somebody would make a joke. Ink transfer refers to my unique process of removing the ink from magazine pages and suspending it in layers of gel medium. Late one Thursday afternoon in mid-February, the two friends bought a bag of weed and drove the 700 miles to Manhattan in Spencer's Acura Legend. Theyre all slim and dressed identically in cheap sneakers and a khaki uniform emblazoned with their incarceration numbers, and all have hair down to their shoulders. The meeting lasted no more than 15 minutes, but still, it was a turning point because the men explained to Warren a crucial step of selling rare books, stolen or otherwise: appraisal by a legitimate auction house. Warren sectioned off a bedroom by hanging bedsheets from the rafters and furnished it with an old mattress and a tangerine easy chair he had picked up from Goodwill. It was the sense of redemption that I hadnt anticipated. Spencer Reinhard and Warren Lipka had grown up together in adjacent subdivisions on Lexingtons south sidefully planned residential tracts wedged in between the city and the gradually receding horse country that rings it. Spencer, feeling increasingly disaffected with school life himself, readily accepted the offer. Spencer continued with his heavy schedule of classes, studying, painting, and working out, while Warren returned full-time to U.K. With the pressure mounting, however, Warren was caught shoplifting a TV dinner from a local supermarket, Eric was arrested and charged with D.U.I.police pulled him over not only for running red lights but also because Warren was on top of the car, hanging on to the roof rackand Spencer crashed his Acura Legend. Writing from [email protected], Warren sent B. J. Gooch an e-mail confirming Beckmans December 16 appointment at the Rare Book Room to view the Audubons and a few other items. Wearing a heavy coat, gloves, and a wool cap, Beckman signed the visitors' log. We werent, like, hardened criminals, so we kind of had to really put up a front. Warren deepens his voice: How ya doing? That kind of stuff. After an awkward back-and-forth, Warren finally handed the man the $500. The story behind their motiveand how they got caught. Nothing panned out until mid-January, when, following a federal subpoena, Yahoo delivered all the data on its servers related to the [email protected] address. and having to sign a fucking book. By hitting the ball back into Warren's court, Spencer thought he would keep that thrilling flicker of criminality burning for a bit longer, while fully expecting there to be an insurmountable obstacle somewhere down the road. As she inspected the items, Halloran dutifully took notes, then asked a few questions regarding their provenance, which Spencer answered as best he could under the circumstances. He was also less cordial and more agitated in person, asking Gooch soon after arriving if he could invite a friend along to see the books. Donald Trump to Evangelicals: You Cant Break Up With Me Because Im Breaking Up With You First, Reality Is Submerged in Fantasy: The Villages Is a Boomers UtopiaAnd Demographic Time Bomb. agent discovered the stolen books, all undamaged, as well as the five-page typed plan for the heist, an accounting ledger, wigs, instructions for opening a Swiss bank account, and stun guns, which had apparently arrived after the robbery. We're going to need more people, Warren remembers thinking. 's all-time most significant art-theft cases. They surveyed the offices of the campus police. They simply ignored him, and the four returned to Lexington. as we left we were going to make an anonymous phone call so they knew she was up here, Eric continues. So I kind of go, That would be pretty crazy, wouldn't it? He said, Yeah, that would be kind of crazy. 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