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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 11h

If by cursed you mean blessed

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 13h

Today, Jodie Foster came right back at me with a grim museum story of her own, so, fan for life!

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 14h

Look - I could get embarrassed thinking about how every time I meet a celebrity, I end up telling them some incredibly grim story about museum collections… or I could just acknowledge that any time I meet anyone, I end up telling them some incredibly grim story about museum collections.

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Amanda Watson @amndw2.bsky.social · 2d

I couldn't resist. #pleasingterror

A bingo card for the ghost stories of M.R. James. Boxes read:
"Spiders
Terrible hotel stay
Narrator makes fun of golf
Latin passages
Eerie disembodied voices
Confirmed bachelor main character
Vengeful spirit
Evil magician
Working-class character as comic relief
Bleak East Anglian coast
Visit to an archive
Narrator in guidebook mode
FREE SPACE
Unholy doings in a church
Frogs or toads
Queen Anne style house
Cursed artifact
Don't buy that rare book!
Something hairy and horrible
Someone gets too curious
Tentacles
Story told via old manuscript
Research trip gone horribly wrong
Beds are scary
Tactile horror

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 2d

The fruit and nut bar of my dreams

Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 2d

A marvellous #Egyptian #frog amulet, made of porphyry (height 1.2 cm).
Because of their numerous offspring, #frogs were considered a symbol of fertility.

Dating ca. 1295–1185 BC, New Kingdom.

📷Metropolitan Museum

🏺 AncientEgyptBluesky

A small frog-shaped amulet carved from dark reddish-brown porphyry, patterned with irregular white spots, shown in a crouching position against a plain light background.

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 4d

Closest I've come to describing why Archaic Greek sculpture is so great in today's writing session was by contrasting it to the way High Classical puts the convention in conventionally attractive. Ya-awn.

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 4d

It's proving surprisingly hard to write for the public about ancient art that I love without sounding like "here are my weird little guys look at my weird little guys!"

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 4d

I'm so tired today because the secret society dinner at Yale ran so late last night (is a sentence that is true and that I most likely won't get to say again)

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 4d

I was in that bookstore and saw your book prominently displayed! (Then went to Grey Matter Books, where one of the other patrons was wearing knee socks and a pith helmet. Very Yale day all around.)

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 5d

Ate breakfast with many little photos of me

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 5d

Bluesky labeled the original post as "adult material" so I modified it so it would show the image

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 5d

Bluesky labeled the original post as "adult material" so I modified it

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Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social · 6d

👗 Fabric samples from Marie Antoinette’s court gowns (grand habits), 1784, preserved by her dame d’atour Geneviève d’Ossun

Mme d’Ossun was charged with bringing the budget for the queen’s wardrobe into line following some seriously extravagant spending by her predecessor in the 1770s 👗

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 6d

(Joke shamelessly stolen from @mtanderson.bsky.social)

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 6d

William Blake’s illustration of my upstairs neighbor

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 6d

Men, what’s stopping you from looking like this? With those delightful little pumps?

Sir Thomas Lawrence’s portrait of Lord Granville Leveson-Gower, later first Earl Granville, c. 1804.

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 7d

"Public scholarship should not be reserved for celebrity intellectuals or tenured faculty at elite institutions. It's designed for anyone who wants to share their academic work and engage with the public" boom!

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 7d

COVER REVEAL AND PREORDER: The Public Scholar - A Practical Handbook.

"Perry focuses on the practical details of how to approach public scholarship. How do you pitch a piece to an editor? When should you follow or ignore the rules of the genre? And what happens once your piece is out in the world?"

The Public Scholar

A Practical Handbook

www.press.jhu.edu

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Elaine Ayers @eayers0.bsky.social · 8d

Thurs at 4PM, the inimitable @artcrimeprof.bsky.social is talking about "The Battle Over America's Monuments + Heroes" as part of the prestigious Poynter Fellowship in Journalism. I'm teaching during her talk, but my students are going + I'm so happy to see her on campus!

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 8d

For more: www.stuartsandford.com/news/2019/7/...

Sebastian (relic) no.1, 2016-2019, cast bronze with verdigris (urine) patina — Stuart Sandford

I’ve just completed work on the latest edition of one of my bronze relic sculptures from my ongoing Sebastian series and it’s now on view at Childs Gallery, Boston. Sebastian (relic) no.1, 2016-20...

www.stuartsandford.com

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 8d

In 2016, the artist Stuart Sandford buried a bronze sculpture of a human head in the garden of the Tom of Finland Foundation in Los Angeles next to a sign that asked visitors to urinate on the spot to patinate the head. The sign ended with a cheery “thank you for your contribution.”

photo of a bronze sculpture of the head of a handsome young man

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 9d

Edited down this chapter by 5k words!*

*Let's not talk about how many of those words ended up in the footnotes. Hush - you're safe there, my preccccious, my ccccccitations!

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 10d

This piece is wonderful wonderful wonderful

The Believer @thebeliever.net · 19d

Mona Kareem on her father’s obsessive devotion to amassing an expansive personal library in Kuwait:

www.thebeliever.net/the-labyrinth/

The Labyrinth - Believer Magazine

When it came to books, my father had absolutely no shame. On his first day at the ten-day Kuwait International Book Fair, he’d pile stacks of books at a publisher’s booth and ask him to keep the books...

www.thebeliever.net

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 10d

"Jonathan Tokeley-Parry and Frederick Schultz would be the very first people in the United Kingdom and the United States to serve time for dealing in smuggled antiquities" is something I just wrote... am I right, cultural heritage law friends?

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 10d

Blue is expensive when you have to make it from lapis lazuli!

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 10d

Indeed! www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

Website Posing as Van Gogh Museum Shut Down After Selling Fake Tickets

The Van Gogh Museum said it had shut down a website that was selling fake tickets to the institution.

www.artnews.com

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