Provenance & History of Collecting
A place to learn about and follow researchers of provenance, cultural heritage, and the art market! Book historians, archaeologists, modern collecting all welcome.
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@jebarr.bsky.social
@cairojim.bsky.social
Australians, Antiquities and WW1. The Shellal Mosaic. Collecting Antiquities in the Antipodes. Manager/Curator at UQ Antiquities Museum.
@provenancelab.bsky.social
Toward #DigitalProvenance. We are the Provenance Lab @leuphana.bsky.social. > Who: https://provenance.hypotheses.org/people > What: https://provenance.hypotheses.org/publications > Where: https://www.leuphana.de/en/institutes/ipk/provenance-lab.html
@samuscript.bsky.social
Part-producer, part-historian, 100% in the archives. PhDing at UCL on Arabic in England pre-1635. Northerner. Learner gardener. Human 🦜 perch. www.lifeandotherstories.co.uk
@michaeldpress.bsky.social
Researcher @ UiA Ansgar #LyingPen | writings on cultural heritage, antiquities trade
@catherinehickley.bsky.social
Editor for museums & heritage at The Art Newspaper. Arts writer, often for The New York Times. Author of The Munich Art Hoard: Hitler's Dealer and his Secret Legacy. Langjährige Berlinerin.
@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/
@kim-todzi.de
Historian interested in Colonialism, Postcolonial Memory, Economic History and Global Pharma. https://www.kim-todzi.de/
@sculptarch.bsky.social
Art historian. Provenance researcher. Modernist sculpture. Catalogue raisonné of Bessarabian (Moldovan), École de Paris, sculptor/printmaker, Moissey Kogan, d. Auschwitz France https://linktr.ee/moisseykogancr
@sea-greeny.bsky.social
ocean + heritage + Southeast Asia living on Gadigal land DECRA Fellow 2025-2027 + Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney | President, Indonesia Council | Councillor, Australasian Institute for Maritime Archaeology | author #BelitungBook
@uofdenver-ace.bsky.social
Promoting ethical art stewardship through digital information and training at the University of Denver.
@barbararomerof.bsky.social
Hija de Pepi y José Manuel | Computational Art History Researcher | @ Provenance Lab @ iArtHisLab Prev. @ Getty @ CulturePlex | Andalucía
@hff2.bsky.social
Weiterbildungen Kunst, Kuratieren, künstlerische Nachlässe, Provenienzforschung
@sabinelang.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher at the Department Digital Humanities and Social Studies, @dhssfau.bsky.social, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, @unifau.bsky.social Digital art history & digital provenance research
@gsgerleigner.bsky.social
Archäologe und Provenienzforscher. Mag Himbeeren und griechische Vasenmalerei. Privat hier. Archaeologist and provenance researcher. Likes raspberries and Greek vase-painting. Private account.
@friederikeodenwald.bsky.social
PhD-Candidate in History - Zoological Collections, History of Colonialism, History of Science and Knowledge - University of Hamburg
@mginna.bsky.social
Senior Research Associate for provenance research at the Art Institute of Chicago https://www.artic.edu/collection-information/provenance-research
@zoecormack.bsky.social
Curator at a national museum. Recovering academic and sporadic user of this site. Views my own.
@mssprovenance.bsky.social
Oxford-based researcher of medieval manuscripts; formerly of the Bodleian and the BL; especially interested in provenance and illumination; currently preparing a catalogue of the medieval and renaissance manuscripts of University College, Oxford.
@victoria-reed.bsky.social
Curator for Provenance at the MFA, Boston. Art, museums, restitution, and ladies who behead.
@heghnarw.bsky.social
Writer, Art Historian, Professor at University of California Davis @ucdavis. Guggenheim Fellow @GuggFellows Art, human rights, cultural heritage, museums, genocide, Middle East, South Caucasus
@artrestitution.bsky.social
Exploring the stories behind Nazi-looted art and the fight for restitution. Tracking justice, history, and provenance—one masterpiece at a time.
@erynecki.bsky.social
That Sinking Feeling: Adventures in ADHD & Ship Salvage podcast. Available everywhere. I wrote CHASING PORTRAITS + made the docfilm. San Francisco Bay Area. www.ElizabethRynecki.com
@historyofmack.bsky.social
Provenance, mostly of art but other things too. Kansas City, Missouri Provenance Specialist, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Personal account.
@plunderedart.bsky.social
researching and documenting the history of art objects and the people responsible for their misappropriation, and advocating for their restitution to rightful owners.
@pankerstin.bsky.social
Historian of science, museums & collecting in Berlin. Provenance research on objects from colonial contexts in East Asia: Zoological specimens (insects!) from Taiwan // Art & ethnographica from China looted in the 'Boxer War'. Kayaks, swimming & mountains
@peripheralmss.bsky.social
Digitizing medieval manuscript collections in the Midwest. PIs @lizhebbard.bsky.social and @sarahloleet.bsky.social 📜 https://peripheralmss.org
@awatsonjones.bsky.social
Museum curator and provenance researcher | Recovery Programme @ British Museum | Former software engineer | TV PhD 2023 | she/her
@shreyagupta.bsky.social
AHRC CDP PhD student at Exeter and Ashmolean Museum researching the history of collecting coins in colonial India https://linktr.ee/Shreya.gupta11
@tibetcurator.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer Museology & Director Institute for Cultural Practices at the University of Manchester. Practicing & researching things related to Tibetan museology & material culture, past & present #Tibet #Museums #MaterialCulture #Archives #Colonialism
@schuhmacher.bsky.social
Executive Director, Provenance Research, Art Institute of Chicago: https://www.artic.edu/collection-information/provenance-research
@angelinagiovani.bsky.social
Art Historian & Provenance Researcher Co-founder of Flynn & Giovani Art Provenance Research. Director of the Art Market Academy.
@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
@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.
@ppr-smb.bsky.social
Official bluesky account of the postcolonial provenance research team at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin @kulturspk https://www.smb.museum/forschung/provenienzforschung/
@tamacahut.bsky.social
🇩🇿🇫🇷🇬🇧 Provenance researcher. Cuneiformist. Writes about 19th c. antiquities dealers who smuggled cuneiform tablets out of Iraq to sell to museums in EU/US. Now writing a biography of dealer & smuggler Ibrahim Elias Gejou (British Academy monograph 2026)
@petercnstewart.bsky.social
Professor of Ancient Art. Director of the Classical Art Research Centre at Oxford University @carcoxford.bsky.social. Chair of Trustees at The Brooking @thebrooking.bsky.social. Antiquity, modernism, arts.
@richardbott.bsky.social
PhD candidate at Macquarie University writing about fakes, forgeries, provenance, museums, and the antiquities trade
@100histories.bsky.social
The Global South revisits the BBC/British Museum's A History of the World in 100 Objects. A dynamic decolonial grassroots project. 1 Object tells 100 Histories of 100 Worlds. https://100histories100worlds.org/
@ofpprojekt.bsky.social
Das OFP-Projekt im Brandenburgischen Landeshauptarchiv https://t.co/dNTnTwMR5L
@margauxdumas.bsky.social
Docteure en histoire contemporaine et histoire de l’art. Spoliation, restitution, mémoire.
@helenaarose.bsky.social
Archaeologist | Director of Programs, Antiquities Coalition | Researcher of antiquities trafficking + cultural heritage protection | Personal account
@petercampbell.bsky.social
Heritage crime investigations, underwater explorer, unreliable narrator, future ghost
@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
@lizmarlowe.bsky.social
Art History & Museum Studies Prof. Ancient Rome, object biography, epistemology, museums, display, looting, provenance, forgery.
@vastarchive.bsky.social
senior lecturer in ancient history at KCL. Working on ancient Iran, Persepolis & history of collecting & scholarship re: both
@electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy
prof of DH at carleton u. Archaeologist of things Digital, Roman, and Outer Space. Editor of epoiesen.carleton.ca. Sometimes blog at […] [bridged from https://scholar.social/@electricarchaeo on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
@rumorahasit.bsky.social
streetwise hercules / assistant curator of ancient art at toledo museum of art
@summeraustin.bsky.social
Archaeologist researching cultural heritage crime, looting, trafficking, il/licit markets, museum ethics and law | 1st Gen PhD Candidate at @uclarchaeology.bsky.social | she/her
@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. :)
@drdonnayates.bsky.social
I'm an archaeologist, a criminologist, and an unqualified dinosaur lawyer. I study passion and deviance related to fossils & antiquities, art crime, heritage, and culture from the Faculty of Law at Maastricht University. Arty stuff and related curiosities.
@barnabyphillips.bsky.social
Journalist and author. 'Loot- Britain and the Benin Bronzes' & 'Another Man's War'..I was a correspondent based in Athens, Jo'burg Lagos, Luanda & Maputo..Now back in my native N1 #COYG
@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.
@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)
@peccadille.bsky.social
Doctorante au LARHRA & chargée de cours à l'école du Louvre Histoire culturelle & urbaine. Estampe, XVIIIe siècle, Humanités numériques. HAL : https://cv.hal.science/johanna-daniel/ Carnet : https://ig.hypotheses.org/
@garethknapman.bsky.social
Historian of C18th & C19th Southeast Asia, South Asia and Australia. Research Fellow at ANU. Main research - provenance reports for repatriation. Quaker. https://researchportalplus.anu.edu.au/en/persons/gareth-knapman https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4431-6659
@openartdata.bsky.social
Art provenance research through open, accessible, searchable data bases. #kg #museum #art #networks #textanalysis https://www.openartdata.org
@knpazuzu.bsky.social
Art historian, archaeologist, curator, educator 🖌️ | Assyria, Persia, Arabia 🌍 | Cultural Heritage, Museums, Provenance, Senses🪻 | Curator, ISAC Museum, UChicago 🪷 | Lecturer, Dept of Art History, UChicago 📖 | PhD, UCBerkeley 📚
@mgispert.bsky.social
Enseignante et chercheuse en histoire de l’art Université Grenoble Alpes. Art allemand, estampes, transferts culturels, artistes femmes, critique d’art, musées et catalogues d’expo
@akpf.bsky.social
Wir vernetzen weltweit über 600 Expert*innen, die sich der Erforschung der Herkunft von Kulturgütern widmen. / We connect over 600 experts worldwide who are researching the provenance of cultural objects. https://arbeitskreis-provenienzforschung.org
@koosterl.bsky.social
General Director of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. Professor at ULB. Research on art markets and financial history. Views are my own.
@athenasvases.bsky.social
Assistant Research Curator, interested in ancient Mediterranean art, particularly Greek vases, provenance research, and digital humanities
@clairedupindb.bsky.social
Historienne de l'art spécialiste du Salon au 19e s., aussi à l'aise dvt des tableurs que des tableaux 👩🎨📊🖥️ Chercheuse postdoc @CNAPfr & @ecoledeschartes.bsky.social https://haissa.huma-num.fr/s/ClaireDupindeBeyssat/
@karenho.bsky.social
Art crime and business reporter at ARTnews. Owner of a floofy dog. Canadian. Doomscrolling Reminder Lady. Confidential tips can be sent to kho at ARTnews.com or karenkho.45 on Signal
@fengschoeneweiss.bsky.social
Historian of arts & collections in planetary, ecocritical, and transcultural perspectives. 4A_Lab Postdoctoral Fellow @khiflorenz.bsky.social, Albert-Ottenbacher-Fellow for Provenance Research @zikg.eu, PhD @Uni-Heidelberg
@dballestero.bsky.social
Anthropologist/Decolonialism/Provenance research reddecolonial.hypotheses.org http://uni-bonn.academia.edu/DiegoBallestero http://transformationalhps.org
@iljalabi.bsky.social
Provenance Researcher at Ethnologisches Museum Berlin. My views are my own.
@fabienbp.bsky.social
Maître de conférences, historien de l'art et archéologue : Grande Grèce, iconographie antique, réception de l'Antiquité dans la culture populaire, open access... Univ-Lorraine, INSPE 🌈🏺 🔶 @antiquipop.bsky.social, Feminicon, @Frontiere-s.bsky.social
@pandosia.bsky.social
Art Historian and museum person. Greek Archaeology, Greek Vases, Cultural Heritage, Digital Humanities, Human rights. LGBTQIA rights. Robin Hood of image rights.
@sarabmohr.bsky.social
Humanities policy researcher | Assyriology PhD | Swim, bike, run | She/her 🏳️🌈 https://www.saramohr.com/
@martinamampieri.bsky.social
MSCA Global Fellow @ Penn and Modena • Author of "Living under the Evil Pope" (Brill 2020) • Co-Ed H-Judaic & EMoDiR • prev fellow @HebrewU, Oxford, Harvard, Göttingen, IRHT/CNRS #earlymodern and #modern Jewish history and #BookHistory 📍 Philadelphia
@cypriotartleeds.bsky.social
Material culture historian, exploring the history of Cypriot archaeology and ancient Cypriot collections in UK museums. Ceramics fan. ECR Associate at the Institute of Classical Studies, London and Associate Lecturer in Classics at the Open University.
@luilog.bsky.social
Antiquities crime researcher, science communicator, journalist, feminist, nerd. This is a private account - expect cats, Star Trek, and half-baked musings about life as a new mum academic in the anti-intellectual capitalist patriarchy.
@maxkoss.bsky.social
🦩 https://www.leuphana.de/en/institutes/ipk/members/max-koss.html 🦩 https://chicago.academia.edu/MaxKoss 🦩 https://periodicals.hypotheses.org/mitglieder/max-koss 🦩 https://www.instagram.com/hot_pink_flamingo [All posts are strictly personal.]
@ameliadowler.bsky.social
National Officer FDA Union; Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow at the Institute of Classical Studies; Researcher in numismatics
@miyamotoben.bsky.social
Historian of 18c Britain (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris - CREW EA 4399) Book history, Art World, Pigment, Auction, Migration, Circulation of knowledge & Artists. Currently resident scholar at CNRS (délégation) She/her/Dr
@artcrimeprof.bsky.social
Art crime prof at CUNY. Follow for how-to tips on art forgery. Also: repatriation; monuments; classics; museum shenanigans. She/her; queer. www.artcrimeprof.com
@mmargolis.bsky.social
N.E. Alexander Librarian for Jewish Studies at Columbia. Lover of old and worn early printed books/manuscripts and the stories they tell in the margins. Co-director of Footprints: Jewish Books Through Time and Place. #dhjewish
@jstpwalsh.bsky.social
Space archaeologist, hab consultant, ancient Mediterranean, heritage | Prof at Chapman U | Fellow at USC | Explorers Club 50 | https://issarchaeology.org / http://brickmoonspace.com | He/him | Settler on unceded Tongva land (LA) | avi by Zach Weinersmith
@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 U. Adelaide |🔎💵💀🖥️ | Taiko drummer, Home cook, Husband | Co-founder of @counteringcrime 🏳️🌈⚣ he/him
@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