Podcasts by Thick as Thieves
Exploring real life Art Crimes
Further podcasts by We Own This Town
Podcast on the topic Bildende Kunst
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Art Crime Salad from 2020-09-30T13:48:16
Italian master Carravagio lived a hardboiled life of crime. To wrap Season 2, Thick as Thieves dives into his activities of gambling, theft, and even murder!
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Boo Hoo He’s a Liar from 2020-09-09T05:05:49
We delve into 1997 story of a stolen Gustav Klimt painting that stumped the world. It's a page-turner, a cliffhanger, and a nail-biter all in one.
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A Window, a 911 Call, a Work of Art from 2020-08-18T15:29:06
Discussing the tumultuous, and eventually fatal, relationship between artists Ana Mendieta and Carl Andre.
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A Fatal Attraction in Berlin from 2020-08-04T13:25:08
This week, we delve into a recent crime in Berlin where, Rebeccah Blum, a distinguished American curator was found stabbed to death by her boyfriend a renowned British photographer.
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Little Fires Everywhere from 2020-07-21T13:07
Discussing the bizarre desire to set your art on fire. Scott Campbell, the celebrity tattooist turned artworld star committed an art crime against himself.
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A Newman Beyond Repair from 2020-03-03T16:30:20
If a painting exists as a cultural provocation and receives a cultural provocation, is the provocateur guilty? Barnett Newman found out first hand.
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Nicer than Violence: Affectionate Destruction from 2020-02-11T17:19:57
Have you ever been so overwhelmed when viewing an artwork that you felt compelled to kiss it? Here's multiple instances where that compulsion is exactly the case.
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People Might Like You When You’re Dead from 2020-01-28T14:49:26
A 51-year old Czech artist smashed a framed painting over Marina Abramović's head as an art performance. Why?
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An Ipso Facto Invitation to Urination from 2020-01-14T05:01:53
Season 2 of Thick as Thieves shines a light on Art Destruction and Vandalism, starting with the most vandalizable piece around; Marcel Duchamp's"Fountain."
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Soggy Theft at The Loovre from 2019-07-30T16:00:20
A soggy theft at The Loovre (yes, Loovre) results in three extremely valuable paintings being stolen. Was it a prank or a rebellious act? Find out.
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One Thousand Thanks for the Poor Security from 2019-07-16T15:00:15
Two paintings within Edvard Munch's The Scream series were stolen from two different Norwegian museums by separate gangs of thieves.
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Punk Rock Geriatrics from 2019-07-02T17:00:06
In a box marked"Miscellaneous High School Artwork"was a Chagall painting stolen thirty years prior. Who stole it and how was the FBI able to recover it?
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Plunderdrunk Kleptomania with Stéphane Breitwieser from 2019-06-18T05:01:21
Stéphane Breitwieser stole at least 250 artworks from hundreds of art museums in Europe. Why?
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Plunderdrunk Kleptomania with Stéphane Breitwieser from 2019-06-18T05:01:21
Stéphane Breitwieser stole at least 250 artworks from hundreds of art museums in Europe. Why?
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Ugly Art Gets Stolen Too from 2019-06-04T14:12:51
Picasso's'Potrait of Suzanne Bloch'is, arguably, one of his worst works but that didn't stop masked men from lifting the work from the São Paulo Museum of Art in 2007.
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Robin Hood Heist from 2019-05-21T12:59:35
Did a 61-year-old retired truck driver really steal Francisco de Goya’s Duke of Ellington? To benefit elderly people to gain access to public TV?
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Abstract Expressionism in Tucson, AZ from 2019-05-07T05:01:02
Willem de Kooning'sWoman-Ochrewent missing in 1985 and stayed missing until 2017 when it unceremoniously appeared at an estate sale for two teachers, Rita and Jerry Alter. Had the mild-ma...
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Get It Together, Italy from 2019-04-23T05:01:47
Veronica and Sara discuss Salvador Mundi, the missing Leonardo da Vinci painting, and how it unravels into a series of stolen paintings.
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Spider-Man Seduced by the Little Devil from 2019-04-09T05:01:04
Sara and Veronica discuss famed French burglar Vjeran Tomic and his single-handed heist of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.
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Mexico City Heist from 2019-03-26T05:01:04
On this inaugural episode, Sara and Veronica discuss the 1985 Mexico City Heist of the National Museum of Anthropology.
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Coming Soon: Thick as Thieves from 2019-03-18T23:45:30
Coming Soon: Thick as Thieves, a podcast where hosts Sara Estes and Veronica Kavass discuss heists, forgeries and all sorts of art crimes. Follow Thick as Thieves on Instagram. Music by Patrick Dam...
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