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Erin L. Thompson
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I've just seen that Cyril Mango has died, after a long career. A moment to recommend his delightful 1963 paper “Antique Statuary and the Byzantine Beholder” (https://doi.org/10.2307/1291190 ). A thread of
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Yesterday, I visited the grave of Isaac Prince, a Black Vermonter who fought in the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, the Civil War unit celebrated in the movie "Glory." Black people
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When I was in grad school, I also would have wished that "classics isn't political." Why? For me, classics was like Star Trek's Holodeck. A meandering thread about why: #ClassicsHolodeck
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The @metmuseum's new installation, "Crossroads," is a master class in using your looted antiquities to justify keeping your looted antiquities. A short thread. The exhibit "examine[s] the idea of cultural
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On 3-26, I'll be talking about "Ancient Archives: History, Use, Ethics, Problems" at the Columbia Classics Colloquium w/@papyrologyatman, #BrentNongbri, and #SamTaha (Abdul Salam Taha). Here's a thread on Sam's must-re
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Want to know more about how white supremacy is baked in to the US Capitol Building? Let's think about the statue topping its dome. She symbolizes Freedom... and was made
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Thread: how do visitors really experience their trips to heritage sites? Laurajane Smith, head @ANU_CHMS, spent a decade interviewing 4,502 visitors to 45 museums and heritage sites in America, Australia
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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
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The US National Park Service says monuments in its care “will not be altered, relocated, obscured, or removed, even when they are deemed inaccurate.” They'll add signage to "contextualize" monuments.
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Thread: how does a major auction house sell a forgery? This is just one of the many fascinating questions in @writersdesks' The Poet and the Murderer. It’s a page turner
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Classics For All... or Looting For All? A deep-dive on an ongoing charity auction to benefit @classicsforall... which will give substantial tax benefits to Baron Lorne Thyssen-Bornemisza's Kallos Gallery for
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Christie's is doing the thing again. I'll live-tweet as I go through the listings for their upcoming London antiquities sale...https://www.christies.com/SaleLanding/index.aspx?intsaleid=28619&lid=1&saletitle= "From a Pr
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