Art Crimes - Ep 88

Cue the tense cinematic score. We’re talking about art crimes, both solved and unsolved! Heists, forgeries, and criminal masterminds abound, as we discuss the “value” of art, and why the black market for art and antiquities continues to thrive.

Links

• 8 of the Most Notorious Art Forgeries in History (Mental Floss)

• Museum's Collection Of Purported Dead Sea Scroll Fragments Are Fakes, Experts Say (NPR)

• All of the Museum of the Bible’s Dead Sea Scrolls Are Fake, Report Finds (Smithsonian)

• The Ten Most Notorious Art Forgers Of All Time (Sleek)

• Family of forgers fooled art world with array of finely crafted fakes (The Independent)

• Fälschermuseum

• Diary of the Hitler Diary Hoax (New Yorker)

• Schtonk! (Wikipedia)

• The Global Fight Against Black Market Antiquities Intensifies (The Medialine)

• Networks can stop the black-market antiquities trade (ShareAmerica.gov)

• Are amazon and ebay the new black market? Archaeologists warn against ancient artifacts sold online (Newsweek)

• Illegal trade in antiquities: a scourge that has gone on for millennia too long (The Conversation)

• The Archaeologist as Titan (New York Times)

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Not All Heroes Wear Capes: Countering Human Remains Trafficking - Ep 79

This week, Anna and Amber are joined by Dr. Damien Huffer, a bioarchaeologist and crime fighter. Dr. Huffer’s work was featured way, way back in Episode 36, “The Unsettling Business of Curating Human Remains,” and Anna and Amber are keen to learn more. How does one get into this line of work? What makes people want to own parts of other people? What’s being done to stop trafficking, and what lies ahead?

Links

• The Bonetrade Project

• Alliance to Counter Crime Online

• Bringing Them Home: The Repatriation of Priceless Human Remains and Artifacts to Cambodia (SAFE: Saving Antiquities for Everyone)

• Fighting trade in human remains antiquities (Saturday Paper)

• This Archaeologist Uses Instagram To Track The Human Skeleton Trade (Forbes)

• The Insta-Dead: The rhetoric of the human remains trade on Instagram (Internet Archaeology)

• The Dirt Episode 36: The Unsettling Business of Curating Human Remains

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