The Art Career

True Crime Gallery: The Cursed Ghent Altarpiece


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Welcome to the "True Crime Gallery: The Dark Side of Art", the Season 3 mini series finale of The Art Career Podcast, where we are going to uncover the dark and twisted tales where art and crime intersect. In this 3 part series, we bring you bone-chilling stories that will leave you captivated. We begin this week with Dr. Noah Charney telling the tale of the cursed Ghent masterpiece. Next week we explore the horrifying use of modern art as an instrument of torture, to a crime hidden behind one of the Louvre's prized masterpieces, and the disturbing artistic endeavors of a notorious serial killer-clown. We’ll end with the famous thefts of the Mona Lisa. Brace yourself for these haunting narratives.

Dr Noah Charney is the internationally best-selling author of more than twenty books, translated into fourteen languages. He is a professor of art history specializing in art crime, and has taught for Yale University, Brown University, and American University of Rome He is founder of ARCA, the Association for Research into Crimes against Art. He writes regularly for dozens of major magazines and newspapers, including The Guardian, the Washington Post, the Observer and The Art Newspaper. He has recently fronted an influencer campaign for Samsung, and in 2022 he presented a BBC Radio 4 documentary, China’s Stolen Treasures. He lives in Slovenia with his wife, children and their hairless dog. His work in the field of art crime has been praised in such international forums as the New York Times Magazine, Time Magazine, BBC Radio, National Public Radio, El Pais, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Playboy, Elle and Tatler among many others.


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