Erin L. Thompson
Art crime prof at CUNY. Author: Smashing Statues (http://bit.ly/3DllrTb). Also: art forgery; repatriation; museum shenanigans. She/her; queer.
www.artcrimeprof.com
www.artcrimeprof.com
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Art in Times of War and Peace: Legacies of Early Modern Loot and Repairwww.biblhertz.it A category of objects that exists entirely as a function of violence, the term “loot” describes a relationship of possession, if not more specifically of dispossession. Neither an historically nor mat...
The case of the stolen masks : Planet Moneywww.npr.org About thirty years ago, Yagya Kumar Pradhan woke up to the news that the temple he and his clan used had been broken into. The temple had been ransacked. And someone had stolen two holy Bhairav masks....
Erin L. Thompson | In Brusselswww.lrb.co.uk ‘Why are you crying, habibi?’ Mansoor Adayfi asked the elephant. He had got into the habit of talking to animals at...
Erin L. Thompson | In Brusselswww.lrb.co.uk ‘Why are you crying, habibi?’ Mansoor Adayfi asked the elephant. He had got into the habit of talking to animals at...
Amateur art detectives used modern tools and the law to return stolen artifactswww.npr.org Thirty years ago, two copper gilded Bhairav masks were stolen from a temple in Nepal. The mask's owners thought they were gone for good – but they ended up in two American museums.
Rescued baby hedgehog turns out to be hat bobblewww.bbc.com A wildlife rescue was handed the ornamental tuft by a well-intentioned rescuer.
Guantánamo: art in captivityleft.eu Exhibition with the artwork of the Guantanamo Detainees