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ArtCurious Podcast

Episode #60: True Crime/Fine Art: Man Ray and the Black Dahlia Connection

ArtCurious Podcast

ArtCurious

Arts, History, Visual Arts

4.8847 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

This season we’re learning that true crime and art history are two genres that have smashed together with some fascinating results. Today’s show: it’s our season finale, and this is the story we have been DYING (sorry) to tell you. Did Man Ray inspire the infamous (and infamously unsolved) Black Dahlia murder? Please SUBSCRIBE and REVIEW our show on Apple Podcasts! Twitter / Facebook/ Instagram SPONSORS Audible: enjoy a special offer of 53% off your first 3 months of Audible by visiting audible.com/artcurious or text ARTCURIOUS to 500-500. Feals: Become a member today by going to feals.com/artcurious and you'll get 50% off your first order with free shipping. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:46.9

content, so please take care when listening. If you've been following the Art Curious podcast

0:52.7

through our current season, then you probably

0:55.0

can glean some knowledge about my own interests in the genre of true crime. After all, it's been

1:00.3

so hot for these past few years, and it doesn't seem like it's slowing down at all. So yes,

1:05.3

I am one of the many, many people out there who likes to dig occasionally into true crime stories.

1:12.4

Yes, I listen to some of the podcasts, and yes, I've been to some of those podcast live shows, and I have read a lot of true crime

1:17.2

books and have seen the requisite true crime documentaries. As morally ambiguous as it can be to

1:22.7

enjoy tales like this for pure entertainment, I do find them intriguing. It's easy to be fascinated with the

1:29.2

dark side of human nature, especially when your everyday life is stable and safe. Sometimes,

1:35.3

for those who are lucky, true crime can be fun. In addition to consuming those previously mentioned

1:41.0

delivery systems for true crime stories, I have also been a fan of the

1:44.5

occasional fictionalized film or TV portrayal too. And earlier this year, 2019, I was particularly

1:50.7

excited when T&T premiered their limited run series called I Am the Night, starring Chris Pine and directed

1:56.8

by Patty Jenkins. It portrayed a woman's search for information about her family and her

2:01.7

heritage, which dovetailed with the search for one of the most elusive killers of the 20th century,

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