Spencer gives me 500 bucks, in my pocket. 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. 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. The L.P.D. Spencer was arrested in a simultaneous raid on his dorm room at Transy. They surveyed the offices of the campus police. He added: Its always nice to be with people that are familiar with the area, and Ive been made to feel very welcome. To have time to properly apply the disguises, he tried to reschedule his art-history final for later in the day on the 16th, but was unsuccessful. The fourth, Charles Chas Allen II, had been transferred to a federal medical center in Lexington.) Just days before their arrests the three even took in a movie: Ocean's 12. 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. He took a cab to Dam Square, an old hippie hangout in the center of the city he had read about on the Internet. She agreed. More important, the basement was secluded. Gicle print on Hahnemuhle Photo Paper (Matt 210gr) 2021 Limited edition of 25, all prints are signed and numbered. 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. When summer break began, the three returned home to the subdivisions of South Lexington. By that point Warren, Eric, and Spencer knew for certain they were going down. In early February 2005, the F.B.I. The contact, who identified himself only as Barry, stipulated that Warren had to bring $500 in good-faith money. The boys readily agreed, and she escorted them through the offices to a small conference room. The meeting was scheduled for the next morning on the southern edge of Central Park near the Plaza Hotel. He said his name was John. It gave me an excellent opportunity to learn Spanish. They had reserved a room in the same Midtown Hilton that Spencer and Warren had stayed in nearly a year earlier. Because the boys pleaded guilty, many of the case's crucial details remain unknown even to law enforcement. His malaise was likely exacerbated by his parents impending divorce amid his mothers allegations that his father, Big Warren, the celebrated coach of the universitys womens soccer team, had gambled the family into bankruptcy. When Eric let him in on the plan, Chas mocked the three as deluded potheads, he recalls. Because the boys made the highly unusual decision not to accept the prosecutor's offer to testify against one another during sentencing in exchange for leniency, they were each sentenced to identical seven-year terms. And then they came up with the issue of getting these appraised. In terms of the dollar amount involved and the extraordinary circumstances, the theft was one of the most significant in its history. By early November the boys were selling fake IDs at a hundred dollars apiece, and had apparently branched out into more lucrative identity manipulations. I was surprised he didnt.. By that point Warren, Eric, and Spencer knew for certain they were going down. Buried in the files was a series of e-mails to Christie's in New York. Although the two hadnt really been in contact in the first few months of school, Warren knew that Spencers artistic talents would be an asset. The Kentucky Theatre I think we all knew that we wanted something different, and we had to break away from where we were living. After the Halloran interview the F.B.I. agents poured in over the wreckage. It was the sense of redemption that I hadnt anticipated. It was hard for us. After researching auction houses online, Warren singled out Christies in New York. Faced with overwhelming evidence, they all eventually confessed. ). The next day, they worked off their hangovers by checking out Ground Zero before strolling into the bustle of Chinatown for lunch. They jump in the van and peel out around the loop.. After researching auction houses online, Warren singled out Christie's in New York. I've met with them, Eric continues. After a brief discussion they chose Chas Allen, a handsome, clean-cut U.K. business major who had started the lawn-care company with Eric the previous summer. And I pledged a fraternity, but I really didnt get into that too much. For Spencer it all started with a series of mild disappointments. Phase 2 involves the actual theft, and begins when Spencer takes his position at an upper-floor window of the nearby athletic center, where he will be on lookout. [Beckman] said, B.J., a nickname her friends and colleagues used for her, she told officers. The meeting initially hit a snag when Barry was put off by the boys youth. They surveyed the offices of the campus police. I had so few distractions to take me away from my work, and only by bettering myself could escape the belief that I was losing my best years. Mass Market Paperback. We spoke about his paintings, especially A Plan to Fail. 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. 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. Calculated, mathematical, loose, painterly, spontaneous, 2021 Spencer Reinhard all rights reserved, Please send me the price list, I am interested in purchasing an original Reinhard. Reinhards works will be exhibited at his residencys final exhibition on May 8, culminating in May 16s big reveal. Once Warren had pulled the cap over Gooch's eyes, the two laid a bedsheet on the ground and began piling on the seven Audubon folios they intended to steal (the four-volume Birds of America plus three volumes from another Audubon series). a plan to fail spencer reinhard painting Bid on Art by Today's Leading Artists. We can never go back if we wanted toI would rather have not been busted, but all I can say is it feels right in here, and before, in college, it just never did., I remember talking to Eric and Warren one day and I was like, So what, theyre going to put us in jail, says Spencer. Number one on that list was failure to create a business plan. The plan for the actual robbery sets out three distinct phases. Failure to plan is planning to fail because if you don't plan anything, you might as well not plan at all. So we get the passport from the dude, plane tickets. 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. (Spencer had had to do a rush job on them because his art-history final had run long.) Gooch agreed to reschedule for 11 the next morning. He looked like he was dressed from a thrift store, Halloran told the agents. They also noticed a group of people lingering in the Rare Book Room. He said, You do that and you are free then to give them to us when you can. O.K., great. (Having seen their fair share of heist movies, they knew how dangerous it was to leave a paper trail.) With each taking one end of the Audubons, they made their way to the staff-only elevator. Shortly thereafter he was introduced to a Lexington Catholic alumnus who was making an easy living in identity theft. Warren and Eric got out of the G.T.A.V. Bam. To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. 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. Two months later, amid a local media frenzy, the four formally pleaded guilty to all six federal charges, including theft of cultural artifacts from a public museum and interstate transportation of stolen property. When she asked for contact information, Spencer gave her his cell-phone number. 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. (Through his attorney, Allen declined to be interviewed.) 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. 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. (Big Warren declined to comment on the gambling accusations at the time.) Barry described himself as an older man with a long ponytail and said hed be wearing a green scarf. In the weeks following the book heist, law enforcement followed leads at Transy and reviewed countless hours of security footage from the U.K. computer lab, to which a police technician had traced the e-mail from Walter Beckman to Gooch. One evening it occurred to Spencer that they had used the Walter Beckman Yahoo account to contact both Christies and Gooch. The severity of the requested sentences was predicated on the dual propositions that, although the Audubon volumes had never been physically removed from the library, according to the letter of the law they were nonetheless stolenincreasing the monetary value of the crimeand that the Black Cobra Stun Pen used to subdue B. J. Gooch not only inflicted physical harm but was in actuality a dangerous weapon. Worse still for the defendants, B. J. Gooch's ordeal had become a cause clbre among librarians, many of whom wrote letters to the judge arguing against leniency. On the morning of December 16, Warrens carefully scripted plan began to unravel almost immediately. The other was short and quiet, wearing a yellow jacket two sizes too large and a matching scarf. Afterward, he was to call Eric up to haul the books in two trips to the G.T.A.V., which was to be driven by Chas. Though she couldnt recall much else about her assailants, one odd detail stood out. Eric Borsuk, Spencer Reinhard, Charles 'Chas' Allen IIand Warren Lipka hatched a grand plan to steal rare books from their uni library Credit: KKYT. 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. Like Barry, the men were immediately put off by Warren's youth, and even more so by the fact that he hadn't brought any of the books with him to Amsterdam. because she wanted a new Range Rover, like, what? The next day, they worked off their hangovers by checking out Ground Zero before strolling into the bustle of Chinatown for lunch. 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. Leave a message. A Google search of Spencer Reinhard brought up numerous hits for soccer in the Lexington area. Spencer gives me 500 bucks, in my pocket. 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. Vanity Fair may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. And one thing led to another and we were just like, Let's put this behind us. And once we get past all of that, we started talking about this plan that he and Spencer have. A 20-man task force of Lexington police and F.B.I. How the hell would we do this? And he said, I know a guy in New York.. It was just funny because weve been in a lot of places that theyve been, Eric says. Warren introduced himself as Mr. Williams. They tried to come up with some link the cops could make between them and the theft, but they couldn't. Back at Warren's later that afternoon, the boys were transfixed by local coverage of the Transy Book Heist. According to the news, it appeared that neither Gooch nor anyone else was able to provide the police with an accurate description of the boys. (The librarian who chased them out of the library did tell police the correct total of four thieves, even though she had seen only three.) In the fall of 2004, Warren Lipka moved into the unfinished basement. Behind the main building and through three blastproof security doors is the prison visitors' room, where I meet separately with Likpa, Reinhard, and Borsuk for a series of interviews almost a year into their sentence. In the early evening, they say they smoked some celebratory Kentucky Bluegrass weed they had stashed away for the occasion. Near the boiler he also jerry-rigged a greenhouse for growing marijuana. Built over old tobacco fields in the 80s, they feature ponds with fountains, cookie-cutter brick Colonial houses, street names like Ironbridge Drive and Turnberry Lane, and regulations authorizing penalties for unkempt yards and tacky lawn Santas. Even if they did steal the books, for example, how would they ever sell them? When I get up there, B.J. A week later came a terse reply, telling Terry that, if he wanted to sell something, he was going to have to come in person to Amsterdam, as that is where I do business. Both Spencer and Warren were thrilleduntil they realized it would require traveling with a passport. He was just so unbearable. He was told to look for a bearded, heavyset man in a solid-blue sweater. We had a few pitchers, feeling each other out. 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. That night they had dinner at a Japanese restaurant, followed by drinks at the hotel bar, where Warren chummed up to an Iraq veteran, Spencer almost started a brawl after knocking a table full of drinks over, and Eric picked up a middle-aged Brazilian tourist. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. 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. But before long they were put to chase once again, this time by two local thugs. Cops entered the basement, a dank pit reeking of marijuana, and found Warren sprawled out on a mattress. LET'S START WITH 10 DAYS OF . Now we can't ever go back there. Still shaken from her ordeal, Gooch, in her 50s, told police that shortly after entering the Rare Book Room with the two men she had been struck on the arm with a Taserlike weapon, her hands and feet were bound with zip ties, and a wool cap was pulled over her eyes. She offered to take his place. Oh, yeah, he almost got shot, says Eric, laughing. Two months later, amid a local media frenzy, the four formally pleaded guilty to all six federal charges, including theft of cultural artifacts from a public museum and interstate transportation of stolen property. He covered his tracks by using public phones and campus computers. (Spencer had had to do a rush job on them because his art-history final had run long.) This is my first time on the island, any island for that matter, he said. Mr. Beckman now wanted these books appraised. The investigation of the Transy Book Heist came to an explosive end on the morning of February 11, 2005, as a SWAT unit broke down the front door of the yellow bungalow with a battering ram, blasting stun grenades throughout the building. Because this is so much bigger than anything weve done before.. Ezra Millers Messiah Delusions: Inside. I spent two years in FCI Ashland before being transferred to Fort Dix, New Jersey. Around Halloween, Warren drafted a working plan, which he presented to the other three in the basement. Its great to be the inspiration for this project., 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. We told B.J. They went back up in the elevator, accidentally stopping on the main floor, where they were spotted by another librarian. Before, in college, growing up, we were being funneled into this mundane, nickel-and-dime existence. Once the boys were inside the library, students stared at the ridiculous old-man disguises. Waiting for the law to snatch them was nerve-racking, but they went on with their lives as if nothing had been amiss. 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. 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.. Im not sure, but it was a lot. A witness had written down a license-plate number, but it was way off. Around Halloween, Warren drafted a working plan, which he presented to the other three in the basement. Aside from harming B. J. Gooch, Spencer, Warren, and Eric maintain that they have no regrets. I was born in Lexington, Kentucky and was raised by my wonderful parents in what was a largely carefree and happy childhood. All these girls I could draw better than when I was in sixth grade.. As they took their seats in the conference room, Warren explained that he and Mr. Stephens are the sole representatives of Walter Beckman, whom he described as a very private individual from Boston who had recently inherited several valuable rare books and manuscripts. So we get the passport from the dude, plane tickets. 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. The Real Spencer Reinhard : To have this, this need to know what is on the other side of that line, and realizing the only way to actually do that is to cross it, there's never a point in your life after that where you haven't already crossed that line. No response. Even if we wanted to, they won't let us. computers in the Lexington field office. The two men followed the librarian into the Rare Book Room, and John closed the door behind them. 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. We spoke about his paintings, especially A Plan to Fail. Yet he did allow and encourage the interpretation of his art as an abrogation of space and time and, above all, history. Photographed by Nan Goldin at the tender age of 19, just about to release his Tony Richardson film. 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I was kind of skeptical, continues Spencer, but the way I rationalized it was: its the biggest auction house. As far as they could see, there were only two ways out: either getting away with the crime or getting arrested for it. 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. Across town at U.K., in a towering cinder-block dorm, Warren's world was spinning apart at a much faster clip. Chas backs up [the van] and almost hits the woman as Eric comes around to the door. Despite the differing temperamentsand the disapproval of Spencer's parentsthe two were best friends from the age of eight, a friendship that revolved largely around soccer. 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 Darwins 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 Audubons A Synopsis of the Birds of North America ($10,000). They climbed onto dorm roofs, where theyd stake out the library for hours at a time, marking down the comings and goings of teachers, students, and security personnel. agents were sitting behind them the whole time, listening to their every word. 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. Back at Warrens that afternoon, the boys were transfixed by local coverage of the Transy Book Heist.. 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). Were going to need more people, Warren remembers thinking. He feared being restricted in any way. We figured the more obvious [we were], the less likely [we would be suspected]., As it was already nearing the end of the school year, and there was a lot of planning yet to be done, they agreed to postpone the theft until at least the fall. Warren called me one night and he's like, We need to get together. My world view actually expanded. Spencer believed it was an insurmountable problem. It had some tennis trivia in there that I wasnt expecting.. Before rendering her decision, the judge made preliminary findings that each of the boys was equally culpable, that the value of the books stolen would include only those physically removed from the building, and although Gooch suffered no bodily injury, the stun pen was in fact a dangerous weapon. Dressed for success in a tailored dark-blue suit his parents had bought for special occasions and future job interviews, Warren cultivated the young-conservative look, using a Windsor knot on his red tie and giving his wing tips a last-minute buff. Having told their parents that they were going on a ski trip to West Virginia, that weekend they loaded the loot into Eric's Ford Explorer and took off on the 12-hour drive to New York for their Christie's appointment. Realizing that the only way out was through the main floor, they took the elevator up once again and carried the books into a back stairwell that led to another exit. The thieves left no fingerprints behind, and there were almost no witnesses. So I kind of go, That would be pretty crazy, wouldn't it? He said, Yeah, that would be kind of crazy. I then said, You know, why don't you look into it more and we'll go from there? Just like very unofficial.. By signing up you agree to our User Agreement and Privacy Policy & Cookie Statement. 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 we'll be released. Through it all, I never stopped making art. The guys hung out together when they could, with Warren frequently conjuring up fantasiesthrough billowing clouds of marijuana smokeof post-heist life for them in the Mediterranean, complete with sleek catamarans and topless women. And Eric calls to him. into a perfect parking space and watched as Eric and Warren entered the library. On the morning of December 17, 2004, Betty Jean Gooch, a librarian in the Special Collections Library at Transylvania University, in Lexington, Kentucky, was preparing for her 11 oclock appointment with Walter Beckman, a man she had never met. And thats when I came up.. . That was the point all along. The phone number was registered to a Gary Reinhard of Lexington, Kentucky. Choose your favorite reinhard art prints from 2,323 available designs. Warren went up to the third floor to meet Gooch, while Eric waited downstairs for him to call. Abstraction allows me to explore multiple paths of my creative desire. Forensically examining Instagram accounts, interviews, and police reports, author Kathleen Hale reconstructs their relationship, and ultimately Petitos murder. The partnership flourished, with Warren as the face of the operation and Eric in charge of ID production, until the two had an argument over $2,000 that went missing from Erics drawer. 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