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Erin L. Thompson
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Art crime prof . Author: Smashing Statues bit.ly/3DllrTb. Also: art forgery; repatriation; museum shenanigans. She/her.
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“Shoot - a fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.”
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Specific and grim question: if I know someone was hanged in New Orleans in 1831, is there a chance of finding records? I know race but no other details.
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Breaking: DOJ has forfeited $12 million from the estate of indicted antiquities dealer Douglas Latchford.
They money was "derived from the sale of stolen Southeast Asian antiquities" and inherited by his daughter Julia after Latchford's 2020 death.
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Who has written about the psychology of 20th century private collectors of Native American/First Nations cultural artifacts? Thank you!
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Discount code for the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Heritage Destruction - global coverage from a lot of impressive experts and then also me!
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My article, Trafficking fake ‘ancient’ Torahs in Turkey: A media analysis, is now out in Public Archaeology
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RETURN: reconnecting objects and collections with people and places.
A three-day symposium exploring how objects held in Australian and international museums are being returned to Country.
27/6/23 – 29/6/23 Free Entry
Online or In person:
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Lunch with my 7-year-old: she freaks that her sandwich has arugula on it. I remove the arugula and add it to my sandwich. She asks for a bite of my sandwich and then proceeds to eat 90% of it, including the arugula. Make it make sense.
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Took the kids to see "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse" and it begins with a Renaissance artist villain trashing the Guggenheim and decapitating a Jeff Koons balloon dog and... I have never been happier in a movie theater?
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Here's the link to the eagle-eyed 's post: lootingmatters.blogspot.com/2023/06/bubon-
Here's the 's promises: metmuseum.org/perspectives/a
For background, on Met's previous erasures:
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Didn't even take six weeks to get from the Met promising transparency for their digital records of artifacts to them scrubbing their website of a probably looted antiquity. Slow clap.
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Incredibly beautiful essay about many things, including the disappearance of Zenobia, as one of the last seven ibises living at Palmyra was named - the last “that knew the ancestral migratory route of the ibises”
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I tried and gave up and tried again — for more than two years. The words just kept on failing.
I finally wrote an essay about the Mediterranean’s human tragedy, migration in near extinct species, Zenobia the bird & the queen, impossible homes…
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Looks like the restoration to the Ingres fold was based on archival research rather than wishful connoisseurship, but it's a fascinating tale of the perils of attribution... (aka, sometimes even Ingres painted a weird boob):
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Looks like the Wildenstein gallery wanted to buy it, but only if it could then sell it as an Ingres, and the Met wanted to stipulate its doubts (according to this 1973 report which is Very Interesting):
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Fascinating - in 1971, the Met deaccessioned this painting because curators thought its "many awkward passages" meant it couldn't be by Ingres. Once negotiations to sell it collapsed, the museum just reaccessioned... and now exhibits it as an Ingres once more!
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Seen at the National Archives…below each photo are names and prisoner numbers…
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I’m kinda embarrassed that I didn’t know that you can find a list of the prices realized bound into auction catalogs at the Met’s library, but… you can find a list of the prices realized bound into auction catalogs at the Met’s library!
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For all of you demanding I prove the match, Cambodia has now released the 3D reconstruction of the sculpture and its base: facebook.com/watch?v=582001
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Cannot emphasize enough that the most fun question to ask a museum staffer is “have you experienced any hauntings in here?”
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