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

11/06/2025

Season 5 trailer is live! Episode 1 drops two weeks from today, on June 25. If you want to listen now--and would like to support the show--please consider becoming a patron at www.patreon.com/artofcrimepodcast.

28/05/2025

Ask Me Anything is out today! I hope you like it! But please don't ask me what Sarah Bernhardt is doing on this boardwalk.

22/05/2025

One last reminder to submit questions and comments for the Ask Me Anything episode! If you send a question or comment, you'll be entered in a raflle. Prizes include this Art of Crime beer stein! Feel free to reply to this post, send a DM, or you can email me at [email protected]. Hope to hear from you soon!

02/04/2025

New episode is out today, featuring the fabulous Amanda Matta of ! Amanda guides us through the thorny problem of looted or otherwise ill-gotten objects at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Listen now to hear the story of the Celestial Dancer, the stunning sculpture pictured here, among other artworks.

25/03/2025

Publicity for Club 82. Located in the Lower East Side and owned by Mafia bride Anna Genovese, Club 82 was the city’s premier venue for female impersonation. (This image has been rescued and published by theater and nightlife historian Joe E. Jeffreys.

19/03/2025

New episode out today! One Monday morning in 1958, Nina Lawson, Mistress of Wigs at the Metropolitan Opera, came into work to discover that someone had stolen thirty thousand dollars' worth of wigs from the Met. The theft made national headlines, and the FBI joined the hunt for the culprits. Who on earth would carry out such a crime?

10/03/2025

Braden Brothers, “The Astor Library” (ca. 1911). Located in the East Village, the Astor Library opened to the general public in 1849. It was later consolidated with the NYPL. In 1911, the building was abandoned and its books moved to the library’s main branch in Bryant Park. The Astor collection was an important source for the NYPL’s early collections, including rare books (Image courtesy of the Getty Museum.)

27/02/2025

During the 1920s crusaders, spearheaded by The New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, whipped up a moral panic about the alleged sexual deviance of the theater industry. Mae West became a convenient lightning rod for moral indignation in some quarters of the press, including this tabloid cover story.

21/02/2025

Publicity portrait of Mae West as published in the trade publication, Variety (Christmas, 1914). In her early career, West was a popular vaudeville performer. She enjoyed some degree of national recognition even before her career took off in the 1920s.

19/02/2025

New episode, "Mae West Goes to Jail," is out today! Pictured here is Mae West in an ultra-glam swan bed. No further comment is necessary.

05/02/2025

New episode out today! We talk with best-selling author Dean Jobb about the life and crimes of Arthur Barry, a gentlemanly thief who stole millions of dollars' worth of jewelry from New Yorkers in the Roaring Twenties. Barry was often compared to the literary character, A.J. Raffles, pictured below with his accomplice, Bunny.

04/02/2025

Photograph of the Café Martin, a popular restaurant a short walk from Madison Square Garden. Evelyn Nesbit and Harry Thaw dined at Café Martin the night of the murder of Stanford White.

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