Summer Rose Austin
@SummerRose721
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Only on 🦋 now - Archaeologist researching cultural heritage crime, looting, trafficking, il/licit markets, museum ethics & laws | @UCLarchaeology PhD Candidate
Joined October 2016
🏳️Im out...like many others, I am withdrawing from this platform for a multitude of reasons. I'm posting over in the other place now and am also on LinkedIn. Hope we can build a healthy and vibrant community outside of this platform.
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Clerk at the local Floridian business authority: And what is the name of the 501c(3) Nonprofit organization you would like to create? Schmitt family: Booty Salvage Inc* Clerk: well this is Florida so that tracks *Im shocked that name wasnt taken already https://t.co/xOr2lDDkmn
news.artnet.com
A trove of 37 gold coins worth over $1 million, stolen from a 1715 shipwreck in Florida by the family that salvaged it, has been found.
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Opposition lawmakers performed the haka during a reading of a bill that would redefine the country’s founding treaty with its Indigenous people.
nytimes.com
Opposition lawmakers performed the haka during a reading of a bill that would redefine the country’s founding treaty with its Indigenous people.
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Art detectives bust fraud ring producing Banksys by the dozen https://t.co/L8fzsfLUj8
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Unesco calls for emergency session to protect Lebanese heritage sites :
theartnewspaper.com
Israeli strikes across southern and eastern Lebanon have damaged and threatened several important monuments, while Baalbek remains in peril
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Useful reflections for anyone that is thinking of editing an academic volume! @DrEmilineSmith thank you for being the absolute best co-editor, you made the process worth it!
@SummerRose721 and I just submitted an edited volume with a range of practitioner and academic contributors, primarily ECR researchers. Although we are absolutely no experts, we've learnt some things along the way that may be useful for anyone else doing this #AcademicChatter 🧵
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Australian museum under fire for acquiring object linked to protesters' attack on well-known painting:
theartnewspaper.com
Politicians have slammed the museum for ‘glorifying’ the attack on Frederick McCubbin’s ‘Down on his luck’
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Huge news. It's back. The shield taken from Ethiopia in 1868, put up for sale in Newcastle this year, identified through the expertise of @alulapan (who shared the pics) and handed over through the negotiation of HIH Prince Ermias & the Royal Ethiopian Trust just came back home.
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A new study seeks to establish ethical collecting practices for US museums:
theartnewspaper.com
The Penn Cultural Heritage Center’s three-year national study amplifies ongoing calls for transparency and will provide a collecting framework
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Prosecutors wrote that Mr. Almagià’s dealings were furthered by the “complicit assistance” of Michael Padgett a former curator at the Princeton Art Museum, who they said used his reputation and contacts to introduce Almagià to a world of prominent clients & curators at museums
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😂"The investigators said Mr. Almagià kept important evidence of his illicit activities — a ledger of plundered items he had trafficked — in one apartment, hidden in a Renaissance-era chest beneath a marble statue of a deer." 🤣 Someone has been watching too many Bond movies
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Investigators Say a High-Profile Dealer Trafficked 2,000 Looted Artifacts In an arrest warrant for Edoardo Almagià a Princeton-educated antiquities dealer, the @ManhattanDA office detailed what it described as decades of illicit transactions https://t.co/m5asOEr0h0
nytimes.com
In an arrest warrant for Edoardo Almagià, a Princeton-educated antiquities dealer, the Manhattan district attorney’s office detailed what it described as decades of illicit transactions.
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“This memorial honors the brave men and women who broke into the United States Capitol on January 6th, 2021, to loot, urinate, and defecate throughout these hallowed halls in order to overturn an election,” reads an affixed bronze plaque. https://t.co/0GVrmsrN0f
hyperallergic.com
"This memorial honors the brave men and women who broke into the United States Capitol on January 6th, 2021, to loot, urinate, and defecate,” reads a plaque.
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Just Stop Oil protestors place high-vis jacket on ancient Greek statue at the British Museum:
theartnewspaper.com
The campaign group dressed up a sculpture of the goddess Demeter and added a speech bubble beside it reading “just stop famine”
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Old Master forgeries’ second lives as teaching tools:
theartnewspaper.com
Museums, universities and other art organisations have tapped into the enduring fascination with forgeries for pedagogic purposes
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A German puzzle company, Ravensburger, found itself in court in connection to an unauthorized use of the Vitruvian Man. Ultimately, German court ruled that Italy's cultural Heritage Code could not be enforced outside Italian borders. Case Review: https://t.co/TzjkPlEa2x
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Looking forward to presenting my doctoral research and seeing all the other wondering work at this conference next week!
Come along for "Eventful Art Markets" - a workshop that explores the role of events in contemporary and historical art markets and the ways in which they relate to the broader art market. Tickets: https://t.co/PkoOB5K8PH
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