Louvre Museum

This guide to the Louvre in Paris centers on an ordinary closing day, August 21, 1911, when a young Italian glazier named Vincenzo Peruggia, who had once worked inside the museum building protective cases for its paintings, spent the night hidden in a supply closet before the galleries opened. It follows the panic that spread through Paris once the theft was discovered, with crowds filing in just to stare at the bare wall and Picasso himself pulled in for questioning. You'll hear how the trail went cold for two years despite the police holding a clue the whole time. Best listened to while standing before the painting itself.