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 Knoedler Gallery Fraud Part I: Legacy of the Con
Vanishing Point
45 minutes
2 months ago
The Knoedler Gallery Fraud Part I: Legacy of the Con
In this episode, we introduce the decades-long, $80 million forgery ring that took place within the prestigious Knoedler Gallery in New York City. We discuss the history of the long-standing gallery and its legacy, the calculated gallery director and art maestro Ann Freedman, and the movement at the heart of the story: Abstract Expressionism. Our story winds us through tales of forged Matisses, cannibalism allegations, a Jeffrey Epstein connection, and splatter paintings galore. “A pict...
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...
