{"id":11052,"date":"2020-11-02T22:49:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T05:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11052"},"modified":"2020-11-12T22:52:37","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T05:52:37","slug":"sarcophagi-conspiracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/11\/02\/sarcophagi-conspiracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarcophagi Conspiracy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/2020\/10\/berlin-museum-island-sarcophagi-conspiracy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Observer<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Is a Conspiracy Theory Behind the Mass Vandalism of Art in Berlin?<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/author\/helen-holmes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Helen Holmes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/GettyImages-1229197681.jpg?quality=80&amp;w=635\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1253039\"\/><figcaption><em>Damage to a sarcophagus of the prophet Ahmose in Neues Museum on Berlin\u2019s Museum Island.\u00a0Bernd von Jutrczenka\/picture alliance via Getty Images<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When people&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/2016\/08\/museum-vandalism-ignites-debate-over-private-security-ja-rule-plays-watermill-gala\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">vandalize art<\/a>&nbsp;in museums, they usually do it either for deeply personal or backwards reasons, or it&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/2020\/08\/tourist-breaks-pauline-bonaparte-sculpture-canova-italy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">was an accident<\/a>. Neither of these options seem to sufficiently explain a bizarre instance of vandalism in Berlin that took place earlier this month, but which was only just now revealed to the press. According to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/21\/berlin-vandalism-of-museum-artefacts-linked-to-conspiracy-theorists#Echobox=1603229769\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">German media<\/a>, over 70 artworks in the Pergamon Museum, the Alte Nationalgalerie and the Neues Museum on Berlin\u2019s museum island were smeared with a mysterious oily substance on October 3. Among the items damaged are Egyptian sarcophagi, 19th-century paintings and stone statues scattered throughout the three museums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the present moment, there are reportedly no concrete leads on who might have committed the crime, and no definitive evidence left behind pointing authorities to a particular motive. \u201cThis is a variety of objects that do not have any immediate connection in terms of context,\u201d Carsten Pfohl, the head of Berlin Police\u2019s Art Crime Unit, told\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/10\/21\/926200421\/nearly-70-artifacts-apparently-vandalized-at-berlins-museums\" target=\"_blank\"><em>NPR<\/em>\u00a0news<\/a>. \u201cWe have no self-incriminating letter or anything like that, so we have to assume for now that the motive is completely unclear.\u201d However, upon breaking the news, members of the German media were quick to connect the oily vandalism to certain conspiracy theorists who might have influenced the crime in some way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/2020\/10\/berlin-museum-island-sarcophagi-conspiracy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Observer<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Observer Is a Conspiracy Theory Behind the Mass Vandalism of Art in Berlin? By\u00a0Helen Holmes When people&nbsp;vandalize art&nbsp;in museums, they usually do it either for deeply personal or backwards reasons, or it&nbsp;was an accident. Neither of these options seem to sufficiently explain a bizarre instance of vandalism in Berlin that took place earlier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}