ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
**Season 1 has wrapped, and Frame Job is on a hiatus. Look out for Season 2 in the near future**
Frame Job is a storytelling podcast exploring the intersection of fine art and true crime. We dive deep into the psyche of master forgers, the drama of high-stakes robbery and the modern scandals currently shaking the art world. From art history to art heists, hear tales of villains, heroes and skullduggery. Hosted by Leslie, who has an BFA in Art History and a background at MTV, Frame Job is independently produced, backed by historical research and free of ads or AI.
Frame Job is a storytelling podcast exploring the intersection of fine art and true crime. We dive deep into the psyche of master forgers, the drama of high-stakes robbery and the modern scandals currently shaking the art world. From art history to art heists, hear tales of villains, heroes and skullduggery. Hosted by Leslie, who has an BFA in Art History and a background at MTV, Frame Job is independently produced, backed by historical research and free of ads or AI.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
weekly
Average audio length:
34 minutes
English
United States
12 episodes
since May 5, 2026
episodic
IN THIS PODCAST 🔗
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
False imprisonment is a crime, and it’s happened to artists in the past like Egon Sheile and the present like Sherrill Roland. Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was once held against his will in a detention center straight out of a psychological horror movie. Listen to the story of his life told in parallel…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Welcome to Rome. In the middle of an invasion? Sure. The Goths are back in town, but it’s not a Cure cover band. This one is for the moody poetry lovers, however, because we trace backwards from the medieval writings of the Venerable Bede right into the 1st-century mind of Pliny the Elder to pose a…
Frame Job is a podcast about art & crime. Listen to compelling art crime stories all backed up by historical research. You'll hear about dangerous art recovery missions, cultural debates around stolen antiquities, AI/Copyright threats, shameless criminals and lots and lots of fine art. Bonus ep…
A shady collector, a brilliant curator, an opportunistic looter, and a mega-celebrity. Find out how all of these players came together to solve an art crime at the Met. It wasn’t an eagle-eyed antiquities detective. And even though it was “a coffin to die for," the starlet fell in absolutely in lov…
Could art itself catch a predator? In Episode 8 we trace the story of Maria Farmer—artist, survivor, and target of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Find out why she became the first suvivor to report them to the FBI. And what did she hide in the art that followed? Today, we go frame-by-frame …
Director Yuan, in the library with... an ink brush? Yes and it's worse than that because the main suspect of this crime was the one person hired to protect the priceless art in the library itself. Find out the rest of the story on The Librarian and the Paper Tiger. Artists mentioned include the his…
Disguises, fake personalities, helicopters landing on the roof of an art museum? It's all here. And it’s even weirder than that.
Because notorious Boston art thief and felonious front man, Myles Connor, while awaiting trial for stealing a famous Andrew Wyeth painting, decided to try and beat the c…
The owls are not what they seem. Neither is this episode of Frame Job. Because the art discussed may surprise you. What do Frida Kahlo and the Bangles have in common with David Lynch’s iconic crime show? And why so many twins? Find out on The Art of Twin Peaks Part Two. We also cover the scariest m…
In this first bonus episode of Frame Job, we report upon the suspicious death of Hilde Lynn Helphenstein, better known as Jerry Gogosian, an American artist, critic and memer whose untimely passing has the art world talking. What are the circumstances? Why do police think it's suspicious? Hunting f…
Get your pot of coffee ready! We're serving up a dollop of Garmonbozia and a slice of cherry pie here on Frame Job. In Episode 3 we dive into the high and low art of one of television's most enigmatic crime franchises, unraveling its iconic mysteries one Venus De Milo at a time. Packed full of surr…
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