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Erin L. Thompson Profile picture
@artcrimeprof
Sep 22, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
In May, a man broke into an Australian natural history museum at 1am and spent 40 minutes strolling around, taking a selfie with his head inside a dino skull, and stealing a staffer's cowboy hat off a coat rack. I should condemn museum heists, but, hey. Living his best life. ImageImage
I learned about this in the annual review of museum security issues at @ProtectMuseums #NCCPP2020, led by Bob Combs, Director of Security and Visitor Services for the J. Paul Getty Trust. Thanks!
Another highlight - hackers hopped into the middle of an email exchange between a gallery and a museum about the purchase of a painting, persuading the museum to wire the purchase price of more than $3 million into a fraudulent account: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Also, police recovered heads stolen from Dublin's National Wax Museum. Why. Whhhhhyyyyy. irishtimes.com/news/crime-and… Image

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May 4, 2024
In 2021, a Nepali monastery told the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts that the museum possessed a sacred painting stolen from the monastery in 1967. The museum responded by offering to give the monastery a replica... if they would sign away their rights to the original. A 🧵
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In August 1967, the American scholar Mary Slusser photographed the painting during an annual festival at the Yempi Mahavihara (also known as I Baha) in Patan, Nepal. In September, , as her diary shows, a dealer offered it to her.
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In Nepal's Buddhist communities, sacred artifacts like the painting are owned jointly by their worshippers. They cannot be sold. Slusser's other writings show she knew this, and knew that it was against Nepal's law to export such artifacts. Still, she bought it.
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May 4, 2024
Every Carlo Crivelli painting is bonkers, but this one from 1481 in the Vatican Museums is especially over the top. Let me show you some details… Image
Virgin giving side-eye to the pervy Mr. Bean donor figure who looks like he’s trying to get a peek up her skirt.
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This sainted pope (probably St. Sylvester) appears to be wearing holy aqua socks.
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Oct 6, 2023
So this is happening Image
There’s a lot going on in this branding
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Arguing that tales of dragons are evidence that dinosaurs lived in human times - humm. Arguing that anything Herodotus says was literal truth - nope. (Nice buff H-man, there, though.)


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Jul 20, 2023
Another must-read on NAGPRA and repatriation from @propublica! propublica.org/article/delaye…
“by funding scientific studies on Native American human remains… federal agencies have created incentives for institutions to hold on to ancestors in ways that undermine the goals of NAGPRA…”
It’s not that they didn’t think about consulting tribes - it’s that they thought doing so was a bad idea for their research. Holy moly.
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Apr 28, 2023
Arlington National Cemetery is removing its Confederate Memorial - no more "loyal slave" myths! ImageImage
Here's a thread about this incredibly problematic monument:
And here's the announcement: arlingtoncemetery.mil/Media/News/Pos…
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Apr 26, 2023
Inscriptions friends... is pecking out a circular letter form instead of carving freehand weird for ca. 530 BCE? (Context in next tweet.) Image
So, John Marshall buys this stele in fragments from 1902-1913: metmuseum.org/art/collection…. Marshall was offering £10 a letter for further fragments of the inscription, or £500 for the rest of it.
In 1907, here's the part of the inscription he has (left) and two more parts he's offered by a dealer in Athens (right). The new parts have the cautious circles. ImageImage
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