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Art crime prof @CUNY. Author: Smashing Statues @wwnorton bit.ly/3DllrTb. Also: art forgery; repatriation; museum shenanigans. Queer; she/her.
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Currently, only 9 men remain at Guantánamo without charge (others are in slow-moving trials or have been cleared for release). But more than 740 men have passed through the prison, and the shadow of Guantánamo remains long on them.

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Layard turned his fame into a political career, winning a seat in Parliament in 1852 and serving in various public offices until 1880.

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Chapter 1, Melted Majesty: "The king’s head lay on a table near the sofa." Americans beheaded our very first equestrian monument... and melted it down into bullets to fire against the troops of its subject, George III.

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I am thrilled that three of his ships, along with nearly a hundred other pieces of art from Guantanamo, including from and , will be on display from January-May 2022 at Old Dominion University. See https://t.co/y0tTRij46Y for details!

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For the past year, I've been investigating an auction house that's make millions selling thousands of likely looted or forged undocumented antiquities. They're so shady it's hard to know where to start. The time they faked a shipwreck? The past fraud conviction of the owner?

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And now the collector/dealer is selling other items from the same "provenance" (Syria-Lebanon-Switzerland), but even less believable.

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Nobody told me about this book. And I though you all were my friends!

Michael Kammen, Digging Up the Dead: A History of Notable American Reburials (UChicago, 2010): https://t.co/4yicfbYY8s

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Lots for the next TimeLine Auctions go live on Friday, and from the couple of preview images I can see... whahahahahahaha. Hope you'll tweet along with me!

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