Victoria Reed @victoria-reed.bsky.social Bettina Burr Chair for Provenance at the MFA, Boston. Art, museums, restitution, and ladies with severed heads.
Paul Stewens @p-stewens.bsky.social Law & Palaeontology researcher | PhD candidate (Maastricht University) | Master in Int‘l Law (Geneva Graduate Institute) | social dancer
Sophie Starrenburg @s-starrenburg.bsky.social Assistant prof of public international law in Leiden • cultural heritage, human rights & environmental law • previously LLM at Leiden & Cambridge, PhD at Leiden & postdoc at Tilburg • @s_starrenburg over on Twitter.
ALIPH @aliph.foundation The only global fund exclusively dedicated to the protection and rehabilitation of heritage in areas in conflict, crisis and impacted by climate change. Based in Geneva, Switzerland, supporting nearly 500 projects in over 40 countries.
ATHAR Project @atharproject.bsky.social ATHAR Project is an investigative project of Achilles Research Group led by a collection of anthropologists and heritage experts digging into the digital underworld of transnational trafficking, terrorism financing, and organized crime.
Antiquities Coalition @combatlooting.bsky.social The Antiquities Coalition is leading the international campaign against cultural racketeering, the illicit trade in ancient art and artifacts.
The Art Institute of Chicago @artinstitutechi.bsky.social 5,000 years of art and culture in the ♥️ of Chicago.
The Irish Times @irishtimes.com Official account of The Irish Times. Diverse opinion, thorough reporting and outstanding writing from http://irishtimes.com
plundered art @plunderedart.bsky.social Since 1997, HARP researches and documents the history of Nazi looted art and seeks justice for the rightful owners. Active in America and Europe. Since 2016, HARP has broadened its scope because cultural plunder is a crime against culture and humanity.
The Guardian @theguardian.com The need for independent journalism has never been greater. Become a Guardian supporter https://support.theguardian.com
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Arbeitskreis Provenienzforschung e.V. @akpf.bsky.social Wir vernetzen weltweit über 660 Expert*innen, die sich der Erforschung der Herkunft von Kulturgütern widmen. / We connect over 660 experts worldwide who are researching the provenance of cultural objects.
https://arbeitskreis-provenienzforschung.org
Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social Writer, reporter, and floofy dog owner. Previously at ARTnews, Business Insider, Quartz and other outlets. Based in Toronto.
Miranda Ferries @bhavachakra.bsky.social
Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com The hardest-working paper in America.
Margaux Dumas @margauxdumas.bsky.social Docteure en histoire contemporaine et histoire de l’art. Spoliation, restitution, mémoire.
Pitt Rivers Museum @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social Anthropology and archaeology collections from world cultures past and present.
https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk
Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social Bringing people together through art. Based in Los Angeles, working globally.
getty.edu
Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social Chicago's neighborhood news source.
Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com Breaking news since 1847.
weird medieval guys @weirdmedieval.bsky.social fibre arts enthusiast
https://linktr.ee/weirdmedievalguys
Angela S Chiu @chiuangelas.bsky.social Independent scholar of the market for Asian antiquities, especially Khmer and Thai. PhD Buddhist art and literature of Thailand. Author of The Buddha in Lanna (U of Hawai'i Press, 2017)
@mokersel @mokersel.bsky.social archaeologist, adventurer, follower of pots and neolithic masks
David Gill @davidwjgill.bsky.social Professor of Archaeological Heritage researching the history and ethics of collecting material culture. Heritage and its impact. Museums & Archives. FRSA FSA
https://linktr.ee/davidwjgill
Provenienzforschung am OFP @ofpprojekt.bsky.social Das OFP-Projekt im Brandenburgischen Landeshauptarchiv https://t.co/dNTnTwMR5L
ARCA @arca-artcrime.bsky.social ARCA - Association for Research into Crimes against Art.
A civil society research and training organisation which works to promote the study and analysis of art and antiquities crime.
Barnaby Phillips @barnabyphillips.bsky.social Journalist, author. 'The African Kingdom of Gold- Britain and the Asante Treasure' (March 2026) 'Loot- Britain and the Benin Bronzes' & 'Another Man's War'.. BBC, Al Jaz; Athens,Jo'burg Lagos, Luanda & Maputo. Now back in my native N1 #COYG
Jacques Schuhmacher @schuhmacher.bsky.social Executive Director, Provenance Research, Art Institute of Chicago: https://www.artic.edu/collection-information/provenance-research
Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz @kulturspk.bsky.social Mit 25 Einrichtungen Deutschlands größte Kulturinstitution — Wir verbinden Menschen, Zeiten und Räume.
Datenschutz, Impressum + Netiquette: http://t1p.de/spkinfo
Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social Museum Curator and Professor of Contemporary Archaeology, Oxford University • Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford • Tutor Art/Anthropology • https://linktr.ee/danhicks
Helena Arose @helenaarose.bsky.social Archaeologist | Director of Programs, Antiquities Coalition | Researcher of antiquities trafficking + cultural heritage protection | Personal account
Museums Association @museumsassociation.org Membership organisation and network for everyone working in museums and heritage 🤝 based in the UK 📍 museumsassociation.org
Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Amazing collections and breath-taking libraries. Facilitating research at the University of Oxford.
Readers: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Visitors: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Elginism @elginism.bsky.social Parthenon Sculptures (AKA Elgin Marbles) plus other cultural property disputes, museums, art law, archaeology, architecture & Greece.
Formerly London based, now in Sydney.
Elizabeth Marlowe @lizmarlowe.bsky.social Art History & Museum Studies Prof. Ancient Rome, object biography, epistemology, museums, display, looting, provenance, forgery.
@pgerstenblith.bsky.social @pgerstenblith.bsky.social
MOLA @museumofloot.bsky.social Museum of Looted Antiquities is a virtual gallery that collects, displays and studies looted antiquities – and the trafficking networks behind them.
MuseumOfLoot.org
Lynda Albertson @sauterne.bsky.social Forensic researcher and cybrarian using bibliometric analysis to develop accurate quantitative analysis on subjects of illicit trafficking, organised crime and looted/stolen art and antiquities at ARCA. Friends say I am 'fingerspitzengefühl' with data. :)
Open Art Data @openartdata.bsky.social Art provenance research through open, accessible, searchable data bases.
#kg #museum #art #networks #textanalysis
https://www.openartdata.org
Donna Yates @profdonnayates.bsky.social I'm the UNESCO Chair in Cultural Heritage and Emerging Crime as well as a criminologist, an archaeologist, and an unqualified dinosaur lawyer. I study passion and deviance related to rare and precious things at the Faculty of Law, Maastricht University.
Damien Huffer @damienhuffer.bsky.social Working at the nexus of heritage and wildlife crime, w/a hefty dash of human remains trafficking research and advocacy | Res. Fellow Adelaide U. |🔎💵💀🖥️ | Taiko drummer, Home cook, Husband | Co-founder of @counteringcrime 🏳️🌈⚣ he/him
Loot and Plunder @andrewheavens.bsky.social By Andrew Heavens, author of "The Prince and the Plunder", about how Britain took piles of loot and one small boy from Ethiopia.
Interested in all things pillaged, and in Bob, and in skiffle.
Champion of Wiggle Wiggle on Pod Dylan.
Lynley McAlpine @lynleymcalpine.bsky.social Provenance researcher and Romanist in Texas
Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social @J_E_Barr at the other place. City of Angels.
#Provenance with a dash of Pleistocene. Collector of images of dealer stamps and stickers. Bad photos of good art & all opinions strictly my own. #jhuprovenance
Dr Summer Rose Austin @summeraustin.bsky.social Archaeologist researching cultural heritage crime, looting, trafficking, il/licit markets, museum ethics and law | 1st Gen PhD from @uclarchaeology.bsky.social | she/her
No one is illegal on stolen land
Lucian Simmons @lucians.bsky.social Head of Provenance Research @metmuseum.bsky.social. 18th Century Decorative Arts, whippets, gardening.
Chasing Aphrodite @chasingaphrodite.bsky.social Researching the illicit antiquities trade for two decades as an investigative reporter, author, blogger, tweeter, investigator, founder @MuseumofLoot and now...skeeter?
https://ChasingAphrodite.com/
https://MuseumofLoot.org/
https://AchillesResearch.org/
Dr Emiline Smith @dremilinesmith.bsky.social Lecturer in Criminology at SCCJR @ Uni of Glasgow. https://tinyurl.com/EmilineSmith
Research: cultural & natural resources • crime & harms • justice • oceans.
♡ Vegan ♡ tea ♡ scuba diving.
www.stolenstatues.com
www.oceanculturelife.com
The Society of Antiquaries of London @antiquaries.bsky.social In the heart of London, we are the centre of antiquarian learning, discovery & community. As a royal learned society, our Fellows have been inspiring scholarship, debate & research for over 300 years. Also own Kelmscott Manor, past home of William Morris.
Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social America’s only art crime professor, studying theft, repatriation, and general museum shenanigans. Forthcoming book: The Styrofoam Mummy (Norton), on fraud and forgery on the market for ancient treasures. She/her; queer.
www.artcrimeprof.com
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