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- One Thousand Thanks for the Poor SecurityTwo paintings within Edvard Munch's The Scream series were stolen from two different Norwegian museums by separate gangs of thieves.46 min
- Punk Rock GeriatricsIn 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?45 min
- 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 before the industrial revolution.
Episode art based on Georg Petel’s “Adam and Eve”, drawn by Simone Marcantel.
“Plunder-drunk” coined in The Secrets of the World’s Greatest Art Thief by Michael Finkel.
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Music by Patrick Damphier.
Show artwork by Saskia Keultjes.0 min - 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 Museum of Art; their first theft in sixty years.
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Music by Patrick Damphier.
Show artwork by Saskia Keultjes.
Suzanne Bloch Episode Artwork by Paul Collins.0 min - 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 turned himself in for the crime, police hardly took him seriously. He wasn’t the smooth criminal they expected. Whatâ€s more bizarre, Bunton claimed he stole the painting to help elderly people gain access to public TV. Did Bunton really know the whereabouts of the missing portrait?
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Music by Patrick Damphier.
Show artwork by Saskia Keultjes.
Wellington Episode Artwork by Elias Melad.0 min - Abstract Expressionism in Tucson, AZWillem 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?41 min
- Get It Together, ItalyVeronica and Sara discuss Salvador Mundi, the missing Leonardo da Vinci painting, and how it unravels into a series of stolen paintings.34 min
- 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 Ville de Paris (MAM). How did he make off with a Léger, a Matisse, a Modigliani, a Picasso and a Braque? How did he eventually get caught? Find out!
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Music by Patrick Damphier.
Show artwork by Saskia Keultjes.
Jade Mask artwork by Alex Lockwood.0 min - Mexico City HeistOn this inaugural episode, Sara and Veronica discuss the 1985 Mexico City Heist of the National Museum of Anthropology.50 min
- Coming Soon: Thick as ThievesComing Soon: Thick as Thieves, a podcast where hosts Sara Estes and Veronica Kavass discuss heists, forgeries and all sorts of art crimes.2 min
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