Was the famous sculptor Carl Andre involved in the death of his up-and-coming artist wife Ana Mendieta? For over 35 years, accusations of murder shrouded one of the art world’s most storied couples. They were a textbook case of opposites attract. Andre was famous, rich, white, and within the small coterie of the artworld, powerful. Mendieta was a Cuban refugee, a woman, working at the edge of the Avant Garde. Just months after their wedding, Andre called 911 saying they had a fight and Mendieta “went out the window” of their 34th floor apartment. Andre was charged with murder and the art world split in two. Host Helen Molesworth revisits Mendieta’s death and the trial that followed, and interrogates both the silence and the protest that have accompanied this story ever since. Death of an Artist is a co-production between Pushkin Industries, Somethin’ Else, and Sony Music Entertainment.
From The Professor: Hunting for the Mafia's Missing Masterpiece
William Veres is in trouble. He's been arrested following the largest ever investigation by the Italian police’s art squad. They accuse him of running an $40 million art-smuggling ring with ties to the Sicilian mafia – charges that could get him jailed for 20 years.
But Veres has a plan to get out of trouble. He strikes a deal with Italian police: if he can help them solve the coldest cold case in the history of art theft, they will help him in his own case. The theft in question is that of Caravaggio's Nativity – a masterpiece stolen from a Sicilian church five decades earlier. In this episode we follow Veres as he begins his quest. It is a journey that will take us into the dark heart of the most famous criminal organization of them all: Cosa Nostra.
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