2020 Podcasts

A Renaissance of Mysterious Circumstances

DeLeo, Isabella; Khan, Mariam

“I start with a blank and there’s nothing more horrifying than a blank canvas” — artist Lee Krasner.

New York City, December 1990: thieves stole four paintings in a span of five days. Nearly thirty years later, one of the recovered paintings made history at a Sotheby’s auction. This is the story of those thefts—and one artist’s revival.