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Back to SearchJudith Leyster: The Dutch Master Hidden Under a Forged Signature
Episode 10936
In 1893, a close look at a celebrated Frans Hals painting in the Louvre revealed a small monogram beneath the forged signature: an intertwined J and …
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Jasper Johns: Flags, Targets, and the 110 Million Dollar Painting
Episode 10935
In 1954, a 24-year-old Jasper Johns destroyed every piece of art he owned to force himself into original territory. This episode follows his life fro…
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Ukiyo-e: How Cheap Japanese Woodblock Prints Sparked Modern Art
Episode 10934
Katsushika Hokusai's Great Wave hangs behind museum glass today, but in 19th-century Edo the same print sold for about the price of a bowl of soba no…
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Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series and a Life of Visual Storytelling
Episode 10933
In 1941 the Museum of Modern Art and the Phillips Collection were so deadlocked over a 60-panel painting series that they split it down the middle, o…
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JMW Turner: The Barber's Son Who Taught the World to Paint Light
Episode 10932
In 1840s Chelsea, neighbors knew a shuffling old man with a thick working-class accent as Admiral Booth. He was actually J.M.W. Turner, the wealthies…
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The Mona Lisa: Biography of the World's Most Famous Piece of Wood
Episode 10931
In 1911 Pablo Picasso was hauled into a Paris police station and interrogated over a missing painting that was actually sitting in a false-bottomed t…
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What Happens to Stolen Masterpieces? Inside the World of Art Theft
Episode 10930
In 1990 two men dressed as police officers walked out of Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum with 13 works, including a Vermeer and Rembrandt's …
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Weegee: The Photographer Who Beat Police to New York's Crime Scenes
Episode 10929
Before the sirens, before the first uniform arrived, a rumpled man with a cigar was already there, flashbulb popping. This episode traces the life of…
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Wassily Kandinsky: From Law Professor to Pioneer of Abstract Art
Episode 10928
At 30, Wassily Kandinsky was a successful law and economics professor in Moscow with a mapped-out life. Then he saw one of Monet's Haystacks and hear…
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Diego Velazquez: The Painter of Painters and the Art of Unvarnished Truth
Episode 10927
In 1650 Vatican officials feared a diplomatic disaster when Diego Velazquez unveiled a ruthlessly honest portrait of Pope Innocent X. Instead, the po…
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