Framed: Canvas, Cuffs & Other Stuffs
A true crime podcast for art school dropouts and gallery gossips.
Hosts Steph and Joel dig into the wildest stories the art world has to offer — from million-dollar heists to forgery fiascos, cursed paintings, and museum drama that would make Gossip Girl blush. It’s art history, but make it chaotic, queer, and criminal.
🎨 Visual art, crime, and pop culture collide
🕵️♀️ New episodes weekly
A podcast about the world of art and all the crime that happens there. Steph and Joel make art history a little less boring a little more pop culture.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Framed: Canvas, Cuffs & Other Stuffs
A true crime podcast for art school dropouts and gallery gossips.
Hosts Steph and Joel dig into the wildest stories the art world has to offer — from million-dollar heists to forgery fiascos, cursed paintings, and museum drama that would make Gossip Girl blush. It’s art history, but make it chaotic, queer, and criminal.
🎨 Visual art, crime, and pop culture collide
🕵️♀️ New episodes weekly
A podcast about the world of art and all the crime that happens there. Steph and Joel make art history a little less boring a little more pop culture.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Prodigy or Performance? The Marla Olmstead Scandal
In the early 2000s, a four-year-old girl named Marla Olmstead became an overnight sensation — hailed as an abstract art prodigy whose paintings sold for thousands. But was she really the one holding the brush?
This week on Framed, Steph and Joel unpack the wild true story of Marla’s rise to fame, the media storm that followed, and the lingering question: what happens when we want to believe a child is a genius... even if they’re not?
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