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28 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
The reserve price for this fossilized heap of Weetabix hasn't been met - shocker! No one's willing to pay more than $12k for an object from a heavily looted conflict zone with absolutely no information about when it entered the US?!? ImageImageImage
Also: "Bronze Age Limestone Votive Sculpture" described as standing "in awe before some god the world has now forgotten"? Look, if you can't plausibly fit your fake into a known culture, don't accuse the world of forgetfulness, buddy.
Just because I know @PortantIssues likes a link: store.barakatgallery.com/product/bronze…
Brilliant observations as usual from @PortantIssues on this... thing: paul-barford.blogspot.com/2020/10/antiqu…

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Erin L. Thompson Profile picture
29 Oct
There've been many protests over monuments honoring people who did horrific things. But what does it mean that America's public art is filled with statues of generic white men? Read @intersectionist's brilliant essay on America's imagery of white heritage: intersectionist.medium.com/american-power…
Her essay starts from the question of why no statues have fallen in NYC this year and broadens to explain the white suprematism underlying America’s heritage of public art and architecture, from her point of view as a POC in the white-dominated field of historic preservation.
I'll summarize some of her essay in this thread. She begins by noting that NYC has the dubious honor of being one of the only major US cities that has not lost a statue during the uprisings after the death of George Floyd.
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22 Oct
~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.
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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!
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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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