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

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

05/11/2024

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

21/08/2024

Ask Me Anything is out today! Thanks to everyone who submitted questions and comments.

15/08/2024

One last call for questions or comments for the Ask Me Anything episode, due out next Wednesday! Feel free to reply to this post or get in touch by email at [email protected]. I look forward to hearing from you!

31/07/2024

Today, we're joined by Ann Foster, host and creator of the Vulgar History podcast. Ann and Gavin talk about the enigmatic Princess Caraboo, an exotic princess who washed up on English shores in 1817 and generated a sensation in the press.

21/06/2024

John Thurtell immersed himself in the world of gambling and became what today we would call a fight promoter. These are porcelain figures of two bare-knuckle boxers, Tom Cribb (left) and Tom Molyneux (right). They fought each other in 1810, and the match became one of the most celebrated sporting events of the nineteenth century. To be honest, these pugilists have no connection to the murder of William Weare. I just came across them in the V&A's collection and thought they were cool, so I'm posting them here!

18/06/2024

New episode is out! It revolves around the murder of William Weare by John Thurtell. This crime inspired The Gamblers, one of the most explosive melodramas of the nineteenth century.

29/05/2024

New episode is out today! We're joined by author and podcaster Caroline Crampton to to talk about why so many crime writers set their stories in wax museums during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction.

22/05/2024

Jeanne de la Motte, one of the perpetrators of the Diamond Necklace Affair.

18/05/2024

New episode is out! It all revolves around this extravagant diamond necklace and an elaborate eighteenth-century con. Two jewelrs believed that they had sold this necklace to Marie Antoinette on the condition that the queen would pay for it later. Spoiler alert: they hadn't. It was somebody pretending to be the queen, and that somebody had no intention of paying.

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