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Art of Crime Podcast The Art of Crime is a history podcast about the unlikely collisions between true crime and the arts.

New episode is out! In it, we hear from best-selling author, Margalit Fox, author of the new book, The Talented Mrs. Man...
05/12/2024

New episode is out! In it, we hear from best-selling author, Margalit Fox, author of the new book, The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum. Fredericka "Marm" Mandelbaum was the supreme crime boss of Victorian New York, so you won't want to miss this interview. (If you listen, you'll also understand what on earth is pictured here!)

Illustration of Fredericka "Marm" Mandelbaum, New York's most notorious crime boss in the 1860s and '70s. She collaborat...
03/12/2024

Illustration of Fredericka "Marm" Mandelbaum, New York's most notorious crime boss in the 1860s and '70s. She collaborated with Leslie on his most audacious bank heists, putting up money for supplies and covering other expenses.

Dining hall at Delmonico's, a favored restaurant among New York's social, cultural, and political elites. Gentleman bank...
03/12/2024

Dining hall at Delmonico's, a favored restaurant among New York's social, cultural, and political elites. Gentleman bank burglar George L. Leslie is said to have met robber baron Jim "Jubilee" Fisk at the eatery.

New episode out today, "George L. Leslie and the Gilded Age of Bank Robbery!" Pictured below is an array of tools used b...
20/11/2024

New episode out today, "George L. Leslie and the Gilded Age of Bank Robbery!" Pictured below is an array of tools used by bank burglars in the mid-nineteenth century.

Andrea Vaccaro, King Midas (ca. 1670). In a lesser-known episode from the Metamorphoses of Ovid, King Midas is cursed wi...
19/11/2024

Andrea Vaccaro, King Midas (ca. 1670). In a lesser-known episode from the Metamorphoses of Ovid, King Midas is cursed with a pair of ass's ears after issuing a dubious verdict as the judge of a music competition between the god Apollo and Pan. Here, Midas is shown with his pointy new appendages.

This is a portrait of Aaron Palmer, the lawyer who sat for Francesco Mezzara. Add a pair of ass's ears, and you'll have ...
14/11/2024

This is a portrait of Aaron Palmer, the lawyer who sat for Francesco Mezzara. Add a pair of ass's ears, and you'll have some idea of what Mezzara's infamous--and, sadly, lost--portrait of Palmer looked like!

Apollo, god of music, curses King Midas with a pair of floppy ass's ears. If you've already listened to the latest episo...
11/11/2024

Apollo, god of music, curses King Midas with a pair of floppy ass's ears. If you've already listened to the latest episode of The Art of Crime, you know why this is relevant to the history-making criminal libel case against New York-based painter and loudmouth Francesco Mezzara.

New episode is out (one of my favorites to date!), and it's light-hearted for once. It's about Italian-born painter and ...
08/11/2024

New episode is out (one of my favorites to date!), and it's light-hearted for once. It's about Italian-born painter and egomaniac Francesco Mezzara, pictured here, who painted an insulting portrait of his patron, a New York-based attorney, and put it up for auction. I'm loath to give spoilers, so I won't reveal what exactly Mezzara painted here, but suffice it to say that he was tried for criminal libel on account of the painting. His case set an important legal precedent in the New York libel law.

Now a National HIstoric Landmark, Auburn Mansion in Natchez, Mississippi was designed by architect Levi Weeks.
05/11/2024

Now a National HIstoric Landmark, Auburn Mansion in Natchez, Mississippi was designed by architect Levi Weeks.

This 1847 lithograph is based on a late-eighteenth-century painting by George Holland. In the center is Federal Hall, wh...
01/11/2024

This 1847 lithograph is based on a late-eighteenth-century painting by George Holland. In the center is Federal Hall, where President George Washington was inaugurated. When New York ceased to be the capital of the United States, the building was repurposed as City Hall. In 1800, it was the setting of the murder trial of Levi Weeks.

Our Halloween special, "The Curse of Catherine Ring," is out today! Have some candy and carve a jack-o'-lantern as you l...
30/10/2024

Our Halloween special, "The Curse of Catherine Ring," is out today! Have some candy and carve a jack-o'-lantern as you listen!

The victim of--and major suspects in--the 1799 Manhattan Well murder all lived in a boardinghouse at 208 Greenwich Stree...
29/10/2024

The victim of--and major suspects in--the 1799 Manhattan Well murder all lived in a boardinghouse at 208 Greenwich Street. This map shows that road, which ran along the Hudson and led to Greenwich Village.

I'm thrilled to announce season 4 of The Art of Crime, titled Crimes of Old New York! Episode 1 is out next week, but pa...
16/10/2024

I'm thrilled to announce season 4 of The Art of Crime, titled Crimes of Old New York! Episode 1 is out next week, but patrons can listen right now. So if you can't wait until next Wednesday and would like to support the show, please consider becoming a patron at www.patreon.com/artofcrimepodcast.

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