This week in The Vanishing Brief, we discuss some recent headlines in the art crime world including the recent Louvre Heist, a Picasso painting gone missing in transit, and a Nazi-looted painting discovered in an Argentine real estate listing. “I am not murdered, and I am not missing, but parts of me have been disappeared.” - Leanne Simpson Follow us on http://instagram.com/vanishingpointpod https://vanishingpointpod.substack.com/ Sources https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/world/e...
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This week in The Vanishing Brief, we discuss some recent headlines in the art crime world including the recent Louvre Heist, a Picasso painting gone missing in transit, and a Nazi-looted painting discovered in an Argentine real estate listing. “I am not murdered, and I am not missing, but parts of me have been disappeared.” - Leanne Simpson Follow us on http://instagram.com/vanishingpointpod https://vanishingpointpod.substack.com/ Sources https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/world/e...
The Mona Lisa Part I: The Perfect Crime of the Modernist Era
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58 minutes
3 months ago
The Mona Lisa Part I: The Perfect Crime of the Modernist Era
In this episode, we travel back in time to Paris in 1911 to the Louvre where one of the most iconic paintings of all time is discovered missing: the Mona Lisa. In the first episode of our two-part series, we explore the inception of the painting and its captivating hold on both kings and museum viewers alike, la Belle Époque and the art movements that arose, the advent of photojournalism and sensationalism in the media, and a dastardly gang of punk artists and poets challenging the status quo...
Vanishing Point
This week in The Vanishing Brief, we discuss some recent headlines in the art crime world including the recent Louvre Heist, a Picasso painting gone missing in transit, and a Nazi-looted painting discovered in an Argentine real estate listing. “I am not murdered, and I am not missing, but parts of me have been disappeared.” - Leanne Simpson Follow us on http://instagram.com/vanishingpointpod https://vanishingpointpod.substack.com/ Sources https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/world/e...
