Episodes

  • Art Crime Salad

    Art Crime Salad
    Sep 30 2020
    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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    43 mins
  • Boo Hoo He’s a Liar

    Boo Hoo He’s a Liar
    Sep 9 2020
    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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    52 mins
  • A Window, a 911 Call, a Work of Art

    A Window, a 911 Call, a Work of Art
    Aug 18 2020
    Discussing the tumultuous, and eventually fatal, relationship between artists Ana Mendieta and Carl Andre.
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    35 mins
  • A Fatal Attraction in Berlin

    A Fatal Attraction in Berlin
    Aug 4 2020
    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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    48 mins
  • Little Fires Everywhere

    Little Fires Everywhere
    Jul 21 2020
    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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    43 mins
  • A Newman Beyond Repair

    A Newman Beyond Repair
    Mar 3 2020
    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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    37 mins
  • Nicer than Violence: Affectionate Destruction

    Nicer than Violence: Affectionate Destruction
    Feb 11 2020
    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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    48 mins
  • People Might Like You When You’re Dead

    People Might Like You When You’re Dead
    Jan 28 2020
    A 51-year old Czech artist smashed a framed painting over Marina Abramović's head as an art performance. Why?
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    Less than 1 minute