Canvas Of Crimes: Masterpiece Heists & Stolen Legends

by Dara Morgan

Canvas Of Crimes: Masterpiece Heists & Stolen Legends

20 Feb 2026

True crime doesn’t only happen in dark forests, abandoned motels, or creaky suburban basements. Sometimes it unfolds under crystal chandeliers. Sometimes it hangs in gilded frames. And sometimes it disappears from the most prestigious museums in the world.

Welcome to Canvas of Crimes — a brand-new STR podcast where art meets audacity, and the quiet halls of fine art turn into crime scenes.

In our very first episode, we dive into four truly breathtaking heists — the kind that cost museums hundreds of millions and left empty frames where masterpieces once lived. From the recent Louvre jewelry scandal in Paris to the legendary Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum robbery in Boston, from the infamous thefts of The Scream in Oslo to the real-life “Spider-Man” who scaled a Paris museum for a Picasso — these are stories that sound almost too cinematic to be real.

We will talk about robbers who mocked security with thank-you notes, alarms that conveniently “didn’t work,” priceless jewels dropped mid-escape, undercover operations worthy of a Hollywood script, and artworks that vanished forever… or at least, we still hope not forever.

Will it feel like a dull museum tour? We doubt it.

We have got ladders against Louvre windows. Fake police officers on night shifts. Broad daylight smash-and-grabs. A burglar who climbed museum walls like gravity was optional. And enough negligence to make every curator break into a cold sweat.

This is the unpleasant — yet undeniably fascinating — side of the art world. The one where masterpieces become bargaining chips, and the line between genius and criminal mastermind gets surprisingly thin.

So if you love art, if you love true crime, or if you just enjoy a good story about someone pulling off the unthinkable — tune in.

Listen to the first episode of Canvas of Crimes now. Subscribe, follow, leave us a review — preferably a better one than “Thanks for the poor security.” And maybe… next time you walk into a museum and see an empty frame, you will know it might not be modern art.

by Dara Morgan