Read all of antiquities dealer Michel van Rijn’s odd and amazing early blog online here. It is spectacular. #artcrime #archaeology www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2025/11/read...

Colleagues at Maastricht University. I'm running for University Council. I would truly appreciate your vote. Take a moment and vote here: elections.maastrichtuniversity.nl and if you would like to see the platform I'm running on, here: leadmaastricht.nl

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Frankly I'm surprised that I didn't know about this already. Also, this is not what I am supposed to be writing about this afternoon...

I get a lot of emails asking me about opportunities in art crime/provenance/art law research. I can't send out individual emails , so I set up an email list! Once or twice a month I send out conference, job, publishing, or other opportunities. Sign up: www.anonymousswisscollector.com/opportunities

Whose writing about Megalodon teeth markets? Me me ME! Who has Megalodon teeth strewn all around her desk? ME! Sociology, folks...

"T. rex is Fierce, T. rex is Charismatic, T. rex is Litigious: Disruptive Objects in Affective Desirescapes" Check out our new FREE and open access paper. In it, our enthusiastic citation to Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson made it through academic peer review: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Jobs, Events, and More: it's the Art Crime Research Opportunities List for 15 January. Extra long because it has been a while:

www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2024/01/art-...

NEW FREE CASE STUDY! In 1986 an antiquities trafficker, who planned on buying weapons with the proceeds from sale Ecuadorian artefacts, was convicted of US customs violations after he was denounced by a confidential informant traffickingculture.org/encyclopedia...

Wanna read how Shawn Graham and I used knowledge graphs and AI to find what *MIGHT BE* a multi-decade crime spree across museums and continents? It's FREE: "Reputation laundering and museum collections: patterns, priorities, provenance, and hidden crime" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Art Crime Research Opportunities List (23 Nov)! Learning, networking, conferences and jobs in cultural property, art crime, provenance, & related research. Have a look: www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2023/11/art-...

Lindemann Family Returns 33 Looted Artifacts to Cambodia
The family of George Lindemann, a collector and philanthropist, returned the statues after conceding that they had been looted, Cambodian officials said web.archive.org/web/20230913...

Australia: ANU returns three ancient artefacts to Italy after Italian authorities connected them to the activities of a notorious dealer who was very active in the Italian illegal antiquities trade from the 1970s to the 1990s. canberraweekly.com.au/anu-returns-...

Naranjo Stela 30: This stolen Maya sculpture was seized by US Authorities when the crate it was being smuggled in it broke open in the port of Houston. NEW CASE STUDY on the Trafficking Culture site: traffickingculture.org/encyclopedia...