The Dark Secrets of Museum Exhibits: Theft, Forgery, and Repatriation
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🎙️ How Much Museum Art Was Legally Acquired? 🤔
Join us for an eye-opening conversation with Prof. Erin Thompson — the world’s first professor of Art Crime at John Jay College (CUNY).
We explore:
– How museums acquire and label stolen artifacts
– The secret world of forgery, smuggling & sacred object theft
– Museum cover-ups and colonial legacies
– The ethics of repatriation and controversial monuments
💬 Prof. Thompson (@artcrimeprof) is a leading voice in museum ethics and cultural heritage protection. She’s worked on major repatriation cases and helped expose how looted objects make their way into museum collections.
📚 Her book Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America’s Public Monuments dives into the politics of monuments and the fight over their removal.
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