Erin L. Thompson
@artcrimeprof.bsky.social
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.
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I mean. It’s not _not_ a how-to book.
December 10, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I mean. It’s not _not_ a how-to book.
Just wrote about him for the LRB if you want to know more! www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
Erin L. Thompson | Fake it till you make it
Jonathan Tokeley-Parry, who died last month, had a business card in the early 1990s that described him as ‘Jonty “...
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December 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Just wrote about him for the LRB if you want to know more! www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
Bet that Jonathan Tokeley-Parry, who smuggled artifacts out of Egypt by spraying them with gold paint, didn’t guess that the photos he took of the process would be used as reference images 😂 (and no, I still don’t understand why he documented his crimes so thoroughly!)
December 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Bet that Jonathan Tokeley-Parry, who smuggled artifacts out of Egypt by spraying them with gold paint, didn’t guess that the photos he took of the process would be used as reference images 😂 (and no, I still don’t understand why he documented his crimes so thoroughly!)
May the rest of your day in NYC be more lovely than Penn Station!
December 5, 2025 at 2:55 PM
May the rest of your day in NYC be more lovely than Penn Station!
Describing the book as "a scramble of fragments" is ~chef's kiss~ on so many levels
December 2, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Describing the book as "a scramble of fragments" is ~chef's kiss~ on so many levels
For more on how the museum survived the fire, see the fascinating info at www.getty.edu/news/getty-v...
Fighting Fire at the Getty Villa Museum
“I knew that we needed to hold down the fort”
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December 1, 2025 at 6:58 PM
For more on how the museum survived the fire, see the fascinating info at www.getty.edu/news/getty-v...
My school’s librarians offered consultations for similar issues, I think.
December 1, 2025 at 4:38 PM
My school’s librarians offered consultations for similar issues, I think.
I love that the guy who didn't do enough due diligence is suing other people for not doing enough due diligence. At least they got fooled by fake provenance rather than just having some fraudster send some chatty emails!
December 1, 2025 at 2:31 AM
I love that the guy who didn't do enough due diligence is suing other people for not doing enough due diligence. At least they got fooled by fake provenance rather than just having some fraudster send some chatty emails!
In both instances, I failed and had to go back for a retake haha
December 1, 2025 at 1:51 AM
In both instances, I failed and had to go back for a retake haha