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 h...

In the penultimate episode of Season 2, we delve into the fascinating story of a stolen Gustav Klimt painting that stumped the world, its unlikely recent recovery, and all the shocking discoveries that sprung up along the way. This 1997 theft is a page-turner, a cliffhanger, and a nail-biter all ...

In this week’s episode, we talk about the tumultuous, and eventually fatal, relationship between artists Ana Mendieta and Carl Andre. In 1985, after eight months of marriage, Ana Mendieta fell to her death from the 34th-floor New York apartment she shared with Andre. When he called 911, he flatly...

On this week’s episode, we delve into a recent crime that left the international art world in shock. In the bustling art mecca of Berlin, Rebeccah Blum, a distinguished American curator was found stabbed to death by her boyfriend, Saul Fletcher, a renowned British photographer. Shortly after the ...

Veronica and Sara return from the quarantine imposed hiatus to pick Season 2 right back up where they left off, discussing the varietal ways in which art is destroyed or vandalized.

This week, we discuss the bizarre desire to set your art on fire. Scott Campbell, the celebrity tattooist turned a...

In 1986, a 31-year-old man used a box cutter to slash Barnett Newman’s “Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow, and Blue III” in Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum. One of the main arguments his lawyer made in his defense was that the painting was a cultural provocation, and this provocation called for a reaction...

Have you ever been so overwhelmed when viewing an artwork that you felt compelled to kiss it? This week, Veronica and Sara take a look at multiple instances where that exact compulsion led to the defacement of famous works from Andy Warhol, Francois Boucher and Cy Twombly. As a bonus, they let us...