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Thick as Thieves
by Thick as Thieves / We Own This Town
Exploring real life Art Crimes
Episodes
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Art Crime Salad
The season finale of Season 2! We’re wrapping up this season with one of the biggest names in art history. Back in the 16th century, Italian master Carravagio was dabbling in a lot more than oil paints and chiaroscuro. His rap sheet includes gambling, theft, and even murder! In between creating…
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Boo Hoo He’s a Liar
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
Discussing the tumultuous, and eventually fatal, relationship between artists Ana Mendieta and Carl Andre.
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A Fatal Attraction in Berlin
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
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
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
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
This week we discuss the fateful day a 51-year old Czech artist smashed a framed painting over Marina Abramović’s head during her major retrospective in Florence, Italy. Then Abramović boldly confronted her attacker. How did he respond? Why did he do it? Did she press charges? Listen to find…
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An Ipso Facto Invitation to Urination
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
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
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
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
Known as the world’s most prolific art thief, Stéphane Breitwieser stole at least 250 artworks from hundreds of art museums in Europe. Why? To fill his attic apartment in his mom’s suburban home in France. This episode traces the journey of an art plundering addict who only stole works made…
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Ugly Art Gets Stolen Too
During Pablo Picasso’s Blue Period he created, arguably, one of his worst works – ‘Portrait of Suzanne Bloch.’ Fortunately, artist friend Paul Collins has created a much better version for our episode in which Sara and Veronica investigate the 2007 theft of this dour visage from the São Paulo...
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Robin Hood Heist
In the early 1960â€s, a thief climbed out of a bathroom window of London’s National Gallery with Francisco de Goyaâ€s Duke of Wellington in hand. For years after the heist, police received a slew of ransom notes yet they had no suspect. When a 61-year-old retired truck driver named Kempton Bunton...
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Abstract Expressionism in Tucson, AZ
Willem de Kooning's Woman-Ochre went 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-mannered couple stolen it?
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Get It Together, Italy
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
Sara and Veronica sit down to discuss an infamous French burglar nicknamed “Spider-Man” for his elusive ability to sneak in and out without ever being noticed. Vjeran Tomic, his real name, finds himself commissioned to lift a number of high profile paintings from the Musée dâ€Art Moderne de la...
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Mexico City Heist
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
Coming Soon: Thick as Thieves, a podcast where hosts Sara Estes and Veronica Kavass discuss heists, forgeries and all sorts of art crimes.
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Exploring real life Art Crimes
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