#wildlife #Athens #urban #fox www.ekathimerini.com/news/environ...

Well, well, well. While I've been off trying to fight the advance of authoritarianism, there's been a development in this complex story. VMFA nobly "does the right thing," US authorities celebrate the step, but no one realizes that these aren't what they seem... cc @davidwjgill.bsky.social

Huge thanks to @hedgehogpress.co.uk for sending advance copies of my POLAR CORONA, my #poetry pamphlet. The 🐧 popped out of the package about an hour ago. www.hedgehogpress.co.uk/2025/12/06/p...

PRE-ORDERS OPEN: “Polar Corona” – Caroline Gill I am so verily chuffed to say that Pre-orders are NOW OPEN, which means that Caroline Gill's gorgeous wee collection, Polar Corona can be Signed and yours in time for Christmas if you get in touch with Caroline today 🙂 Here is all that you need to…

More thoughts on the Stern Collection of Cycladicising Art on loan to @metmuseum.org #Cycladic lootingmatters.blogspot.com/2025/11/an-a...

Why has an Attic bf cup fragment been returned to Italy when it was known in 1957? Is Italy changing its approach to cultural property? #Hecht lootingmatters.blogspot.com/2025/11/hech...

What name would you have suggested? #mammoth museum.wales/news/1423/To...

Bronze Age objects stolen from St Fagans #Cymru #culturalproperty www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#RichardIII www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A crown of sonnets

A crown of sonnets from @carolinegillpoetry.bsky.social to be published by @hedgehogpress.co.uk

Analysis of key collections of Cycladic figures including @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social Fitzwilliam @metmuseum.org @gettymuseum.bsky.social as well as the Stern collection Tsirogiannis, C., D. W. J. Gill, and C. Chippindale. "A Corrupt Cycladic Corpus of Marble Figures."

New study on Cycladic figures now available: Tsirogiannis, C., D. W. J. Gill, and C. Chippindale. 2025. "A Corrupt Cycladic Corpus of Marble Figures." Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology & Heritage Studies 13: 203–33. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/jemahs/...

Report and webinar on the importance of heritage as part of the visitor economy heritagefutures.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/u...

Theft from St Fagans www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #culturalheritage #heritagecrime

They agreed to loan the material in exchange for title to the objects and future research and exhibits. The agreement, approved over objections by the archaeological community, resolved what might have become a protracted dispute over the collection. Learn more: mola.omeka.net/items/show/2...

In 2024 the Stern Collection of Cycladic Antiquities was placed on long-term loan with New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art as the result of a novel repatriation agreement with the Greek government.

New Case: The Leonard N. Stern Collection of Cycladic Antiquities, contributed by Prof. David Gill The Stern Collection includes 161 Cycladic figurines and stone vessels dating to the Early Bronze Age (c. 3200-2000 BCE). Stern assembled it between 1983 and 2020.

Poetry reading @longshop.bsky.social www.letteringartstrust.org.uk/events/poetr...

Cleon's Victory at Sphacteria and the Temple of Athena Nike on the Athenian Acropolis @bsathens.bsky.social www.bsa.ac.uk/events/david...

The comments between Mendelsohn and former curator Michael Padgett (also named in the 2024 arrest warrant for antiquities trafficker Edoardo Almagia), discussing articles written by @davidwjgill.bsky.social, Marlowe and ARCA clearly demonstrate his awareness that his statue was problematic.

Our local parish church illuminated to mark #VJDay

Tarentine antiquities returned to Italy from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Sources: Robin Symes; Aboutaam family. lootingmatters.blogspot.com/2025/08/more...

Just observed my 2500th butterfly this year with notable sightings of common blues today. 7 species with more than 100. @bc-suffolk.bsky.social @norfolknats.bsky.social @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social

Just passed my 2000th observation this year @savebutterflies.bsky.social @bc-suffolk.bsky.social @norfolkbutterflies.bsky.social

Phenomenal review essay on the new Stern Collection at the Met by @davidwjgill.bsky.social. An encapsulation of the ethical issues (and their ramifications) in antiquities collecting, and how they impact academics, museums, and the wider public bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.07... #AncientBlueSky 🏺

Bubon fans: the Babesch organization kindly published the text of the talk I gave last month in Leiden about the looting and circulation of the statues, in which I also imagined how they might have been arranged and rearranged on the pedestals in antiquity. www.babesch.org/byvanck-lect...

Over 600 butterfly observations this year with 16 species @savebutterflies.bsky.social @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social @bc-suffolk.bsky.social

Three antiquities handled by Robin Symes - as well as by Elie Borowski and Nikolas Koutoulakis - returned from @metmuseum.org through @manhattanda.bsky.social lootingmatters.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-...

Piet de Jong and Knossos www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1269...

Cultural property essay by Christos Tsirogiannis bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.04...

I’ll be asking META to #DoTheWriteThing on Thursday 3 April ✍️ To help spread the word and protect writers of every kind, please join us in flooding social media with this important message! @societyofauthors.bsky.social

I'm supporting today's day of action by @societyofauthors.bsky.social #DotheWriteThing

You can make a change 📢 Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training by signing this open letter ✒️ authr.uk/sp40 #MakeitFair #MetaBookThieves #DoTheWriteThing

Academic articles appear in the database @societyofauthors.bsky.social @alcs.co.uk #DoTheWriteThing

Sutton Hoo helmet may come from Denmark #archaeology #Suffolk www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Leominster Hoard www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Human remains to be returned to Tasmania from @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Two more Athenian pots go back to Italy - Borowski and Hecht links. lootingmatters.blogspot.com/2025/03/worc...

Gladiators of Britain @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social with loans from @colmuseums.bsky.social www.dorsetmuseum.org/whats-on/gla...

Another Zoumpoulakis fragment in @metmuseum.org linked to piece found in Athens

In this article from 2019, I reminded the Met that its bronze griffin head was stolen from the archaeological museum at Olympia. Their response (included at the end of the article) was simply to sniff that the head "has never been the object of a claim." www.theartnewspaper.com/2019/01/15/t...

Another Zoumpoulakis Cycladic figure collections.mfa.org/objects/201/...

More on the return to Greece www.kathimerini.gr/culture/5634...

The Olympia griffin returned from @metmuseum.org raises issues about other items that followed the same route through the market lootingmatters.blogspot.com/2025/02/metr...

"The Bronze Head of a Griffin was a gift in 1972 from Walter Baker and has never been the subject of a dispute." @metmuseum.org @theartnewspaper.bsky.social

Another Zoumpoulakis-handled "Cycladic" figure www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

"The MMA’s approach to cultural property over the Stern collection might be described as “artwashing” whereby the difficult questions relating to how the objects left Greece or even the authenticity of the items are overshadowed by the fanfare of a major exhibition ..." @metmuseum.org #Cycladic