False imprisonment is a crime, and it’s happened to artists in the past like Egon Sheile and the present like Sherrill Roland. Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was once held against his will in a detention center straight out of a psychological horror movie. Listen to the story of his life told in parallel with his art and his endurance under harsh conditions. His current show is Ai Weiwei: Button Up! and runs until Sept. 6 at Aviva Studios in Manchester.

Welcome to Rome. In the middle of an invasion? Sure. The Goths are back in town, but it’s not a Cure cover band. This one is for the moody poetry lovers, however, because we trace backwards from the medieval writings of the Venerable Bede right into the 1st-century mind of Pliny the Elder to pose a massive question. What if a bronze Roman colossus as big as King Kong survived straight into the Middle Ages? When it finally came down is a mystery today. Odysseus might have had an epic adventure first, but we’re going to copy the vibe just like Pliny copied the Greeks, passing this ancient wonder down to you through ekphrasis and oral tradition. The second half of this episode goes into war crimes towards art and culture. There are antiquities that are at risk of being destroyed like the Colossus, and it's happening right now.

Frame Job is a podcast about art & crime. Listen to compelling art crime stories all backed up by historical research. You'll hear about dangerous art recovery missions, cultural debates around stolen antiquities, AI/Copyright threats, shameless criminals and lots and lots of fine art. Bonus episodes are a deeper dive into the topics you love and with more shocking details that I can only provide to a select few curators. All ad-free and with no AI.

Hosted by Leslie Sink who has a BFA in Art History, a background at MTV and also experience as a juror on a high profile murder case. If you love the arts and you love true crime, you’ll find out why all is fair in love and art on Frame Job.

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A shady collector, a brilliant curator, an opportunistic looter, and a mega-celebrity. Find out how all of these players came together to solve an art crime at the Met. It wasn’t an eagle-eyed antiquities detective. And even though it was “a coffin to die for," the starlet fell in absolutely in love. What started as a glamorous Instagram post turned out to be the final piece of a puzzle involving one of the biggest international art theft rings in the world. How did a single viral photo cause a multi-million dollar criminal empire to unravel? Find out on The Kardashian, The Met Gala Selfie and the Stolen Coffin.

Could art itself catch a predator? In Episode 8 we trace the story of Maria Farmer—artist, survivor, and target of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Find out why she became the first suvivor to report them to the FBI. And what did she hide in the art that followed? Today, we go frame-by-frame through her surrealist masterpiece, The Setiles. Is it a map of a global criminal network? What do the clues reveal? Find out right now, on Frame Job.

Disguises, fake personalities, helicopters landing on the roof of an art museum? It's all here. And it’s even weirder than that.

Because notorious Boston art thief and felonious front man, Myles Connor, while awaiting trial for stealing a famous Andrew Wyeth painting, decided to try and beat the charges through an impossible gamble of an even bigger art crime, but did it work? Is Myles Connor the Nicolas Cage of the art crime world? Find out on Frame Job.

Rembrandt and Wyeth are the primary artists discussed along with Connor's story. References include Anthony Amore's The Rembrandt Heist and the Catherine B. Scallen article called "Rembrandt, Reputation and the Practice of Connnoisseurship".

The owls are not what they seem. Neither is this episode of Frame Job. Because the art discussed may surprise you. What do Frida Kahlo and the Bangles have in common with David Lynch’s iconic crime show? And why so many twins? Find out on The Art of Twin Peaks Part Two. We also cover the scariest murderers and monsters, go back to the 6th century BC and contemplate some influential artists like Claude Cahun, Francis Bacon and Francisco Goya.

In this first bonus episode of Frame Job, we report upon the suspicious death of Hilde Lynn Helphenstein, better known as Jerry Gogosian, an American artist, critic and memer whose untimely passing has the art world talking. What are the circumstances? Why do police think it's suspicious? Hunting for clues, we’ll dive into her body of work and detour into the controversial Mountain Park Baptist Boarding Academy where she spent her early years.