Erin L. Thompson
Art crime prof at CUNY (but opinions here are mine alone). Follow me for how-to tips on art forgery (book forthcoming from Norton), repatriation, monuments, and general museum shenanigans. She/her; queer.
www.artcrimeprof.com
- Have to love an ancient Egyptian artist who’s all “birds hell yes… mammals? yawn”
- Finishing a soul-salving 24 hours in Detroit, which included filling my eyes with Bronzino; scrunching through snowy woods; and spending too much (but absolutely worth it) on a last-minute ticket to dance my buns off to George Clinton backed by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
- “The past really is a foreign country” I think to myself, looking at this scene of closeup stereo panpipes, which the Greeks apparently regarded as a good time (??)
- This Tuesday! Also, I’m doing a little workshop on writing for the public on Wednesday morning, so if you’re in the Ann Arbor area and want to come, let me know!
- At the end of the month, I'm making a flying trip through Cleveland, Lansing, Ann Arbor, and Detroit, centered around talking a UMich about monuments. Friends, lemme know if you want to hang! lsa.umich.edu/wallenberg/a...
- I think the artist was like “crap, my bull head came out a horse. Guess I better label him the Minotaur or else the client’s sure to complain.”
- I love the weirdness of the archives (here, a collector who used his day job business cards/letterhead while shopping for Asian antiquities)
- I do somewhat regret that I already knew this collector made his money in cattle breeding before I opened this file, because it would have been funny to sit there wondering why someone’s card was claiming he had “semen par excellence”
