Bonus: Enjoy "The Art of Crime"
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Bonus: Enjoy "The Art of Crime"

C2ProficientApril 14, 202332 min

Hey friends, I have a show that I’d like to share with you today. It’s right up my personal alley--so much so that I made a similarly-themed season of ArtCurious a few years back. Today it’s a pleasure to introduce you to The Art of Crime. The Art of Crime is a history podcast about the unlikely collisions between true crime and the arts--created, written, and narrated by Gavin Whitehead. Gavin notes that he has had an interest in things criminal and artistic for as long as he can remember, and this podcast is the per...

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true crime and the arts, and it's a show that's created, written, and narrated by Gavin Whitehead. Gavin notes that he has had an interest in all things criminal and artistic for as long as he can remember, and this podcast is the perfect intersection of those two fascinations. The show is now in its second season, and it is all about several artists who have committed, attempted,

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or at least have been implicated in an assassination. Today's episode is all about the painter David Alfaro Siquieros, who was a diehard communist, and Siquieros fought in the Mexican Revolution in the mid-1910s. Over the next several decades, he would revolutionize the theory and practice of muralism in Mexico and abroad, largely inspired by his radical politics. In 1940,

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