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Erin L. Thompson

Erin L. Thompson, a professor of art crime at John Jay College (City University of New York), is the author of Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of American Monuments (Norton, 2022).

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Sorry/Not Sorry: How Viewers Express Judgment by Touching the Art

Avatar photo by Erin L. Thompson August 30, 2020March 9, 2021

Anyone who deliberately damages art in a museum is regarded as under a delusion, either due to mental illness or a failure to perceive the nature of what they’re doing. But in reality, people touch art all of the time.

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A Benin Bronze With Fishy Provenance Goes to Auction

Avatar photo by Erin L. Thompson June 26, 2020March 9, 2021

While conversations about historic monuments ignite public debate, a small sculpture which was likely looted heads to auction at Christie’s Paris.

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The True Cost of Museum Fakes

Avatar photo by Erin L. Thompson March 26, 2020March 9, 2021

The Museum of the Bible recently admitted all of its Dead Sea Scroll fragments are forgeries. But when fake antiquities are donated to museums, taxpayers lose.

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Stolen Deities Resurface in a Dallas Museum

Avatar photo by Erin L. Thompson January 24, 2020March 9, 2021

A blogger’s shaky snapshots from an exhibition opening reveal where a Lakshmi-Narayana statue stolen from a temple in Kathmandu in 1984 had ended up: the Dallas Museum of Art.

Visitors at the British Museum (photo by Mark Ramsay, via Flickr)
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Museums Should Consider Why They’ve Become Targets of Attack and Protest

Avatar photo by Erin L. Thompson June 11, 2018March 9, 2021

A terror plot targeting the British Museum was recently thwarted, but the reasons why it became a target in the first place go far beyond the current political climate.

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