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22 Oct, 5 tweets, 4 min read
~screams in archeologist~
I can't get a great photo, but at least these initially seem reassuringly fake instead of just evidence of massive looting and breakage...

timelineauctions.com/lot/kilia-star…
Here are my favorites: Mr. Just-a-Lump and George Washington as Cycladic Idol.
Really compliments Horatio Greenough's George Washington as Roman senator...
They are really going hard with the strategy of just selling heads of heavily looted antiquities categories this auction, let me tell you. (Again, these strike me as... not that genuine.)

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Erin L. Thompson Profile picture
22 Oct
Hey, #ClassicsTwitter, what do we think about these?
timelineauctions.com/lot/legal-will…
and
timelineauctions.com/lot/contract-f…

The same auction house has sold several other inked inscriptions on wood from the same collection, e.g.

auctionzip.com/auction-lot/Ro…

lotsearch.net/lot/roman-inke…
Here's a publication of one of the prior sales: researchgate.net/publication/33… (presumably the same scholar who's noted as having a forthcoming publication on the two current sales: sysu.academia.edu/PeterRothenhoe…)
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22 Oct
Did you accidentally rip up a Hebrew bible? Here's how to sell it as an early Christian biblical text... to a collector who will ask absolutely no questions. Here's a dissection of a fake provenance for this lot, currently on sale at Timeline Auctions: timelineauctions.com/lot/i-kingdoms…
Here's their description: "A fragment of a bifacial papyrus document including part of the text of I Kingdoms (I Samuel) in Coptic and Arabic... Provenance: Ex central London gallery; formerly with Christie's, 13 June 2012, lot 19 (part)."
Thanks, @ChristiesInc, for keeping your sales records online - here's the allegedly same thing: christies.com/lotfinder/book…
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21 Oct
In 25 minutes weeeeeeeee!
If you want to watch, but haven't registered, it's live on FB: facebook.com/clags.org
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23 Sep
Do you really know the story of the #BeninBronzes? Dan Hicks, whose new book I reviewed for @LAReviewofBooks, thinks museums have mythologized the story of the Punitive Expedition to conceal the ongoing violence of displaying the works: blog.lareviewofbooks.org/reviews/museum… (thread)
Hicks unearths the violent history of how approximately 10,000 objects were taken from Benin City, in what is now Nigeria, in the aftermath of an 1897 British Navy Punitive Expedition: plutobooks.com/9781786806840/…
These artifacts, made over the course of 500 years, now in museums and private collections across the world, include many cast metal plaques and other sculptures, and so are known as the #BeninBronzes: weltmuseumwien.at/en/onlinecolle…
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23 Sep
An exhibition about abuses of power can't stick to institutional limitations of what art is: @chaedria on why she gave protest flyers and other "ephemera" the same space as a Basquiat painting. Check here soon for the recorded version of her talk!
"You can't create something that's never existed using things you already have" - on the difficulty of re-inventing museums...
If curators want to reach new audiences, they have to become literate in the way these audiences experience art, rather than demanding these audiences learn institutional standards for experiencing art in museums...
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22 Sep
Of the 64 museum security incidents in the past year reported in the annual review of museum security issues during @ProtectMuseums #NCCPP2020, only two had political motivations. Image
In one of these, involving damage to a museum near the Wisconsin statehouse during a BLM protest, it seems like the museum itself wasn't a target (the damage focused on the street front gift shop).
The other was Mwazulu Diyabanza's protest, attempting to remove an artifact from the Quai Branly Museum: nytimes.com/2020/09/21/art… Actually, he did this at two other museums in the last year, so the survey was undercounting: nltimes.nl/2020/09/11/act…
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