Dan Hicks

You can't escape it: this is the same colonial museum we know, in a shiny new suit

The British Museum is an anachronism - here's how to fix it. The institution's image has been ruined. We need…

To make the British Museum fit for the 21st century it must create a comprehensive publicly accessible databa…

Dan Hicks contrasts the outdated A History of the World in 100 Objects with forward-looking ideas surrounding…

Les trois courtes années qui se sont écoulées depuis la publication du Rapport Sarr- Savoy commandé par le pr…

The statue of the slave trader is now on display in a museum, a year after it was pulled down by Black Lives …

A discussion of states, "toxic monumentality", and how artists are rebuilding a "collective monumentality" in…

Twenty-five years ago, in the preface to the 1997 edition of his book The Parthenon Marbles , Christopher Hit…

Few oppose the restitution of treasures stolen by force. But the argument for the return of artefacts like th…

t the bottom of Oxford's Cowley Road you won't find a bronze statue of a colonial-era British soldier, in cam…

The man who presided over sweeping cuts to the creative sector in the UK is now chairman of one of its most i…

The three short years since the publication of the Sarr-Savoy report commissioned by French President Emmanue…

The dead don't bury themselves. This is one of the first lessons that every student of archaeology must learn…

f Britain's museums gave back all the stolen stuff then their galleries would be empty and they'd all have to…

"Colonial history told by British historians is a glorification of inhuman conquest", the artist Victor Ehikh…

This is a lightly edited excerpt from The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural …

In his acclaimed new book, The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution…

The Museum's involvement in a huge project in Nigeria has only dragged it further into a fractious heritage d…

The curator of Oxford University's Pitt Rivers Museum explains why we should return African artefacts to thei…

"Dismantling, re-imagining and re-purposing this outdated racist infrastructure is an urgent task" Dan Hicks …

Communities are making connections between racist statues in the streets and displays of White supremacy in m…

The artist realized what he previously called an "impossible proposal," building a ship around a public statu…

Laura Raicovich, Interim director of the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York I started work as the interim …

It can be tricky, we learn from the rolling news coverage of COVID-19, to put your finger on the precise time…