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Covers:  Museums, Arts, Culture, Legacies of Colonialism, Archaeology, Heritage, History, Empire, Restitution, Decolonisation, Universities, Teaching, Education, Curation, Anthropology, the "Culture War"
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What Isn't at the V&A Storehouse

What Isn't at the V&A Storehouse

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

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The British Museum is an anachronism - here's how to fix it

The British Museum is an anachronism - here's how to fix it

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

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'The last remaining argument against restitution has now been lost'

'The last remaining argument against restitution has now been lost'

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

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Are Museums Obsolete?

Are Museums Obsolete?

Dan Hicks contrasts the outdated A History of the World in 100 Objects with forward-looking ideas surrounding…

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Quels seront les prochains défis pour les restitutions culturelles ?

Quels seront les prochains défis pour les restitutions culturelles ?

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

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Let's Keep Colston Falling

Let's Keep Colston Falling

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

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Can We Imagine Public Art Beyond 'Toxic Monumentality'?

Can We Imagine Public Art Beyond 'Toxic Monumentality'?

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

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The U.K. Has Held Onto the Parthenon Marbles for Centuries-But the Tide Is Turning. Here's Why I ...

The U.K. Has Held Onto the Parthenon Marbles for Centuries-But the Tide Is Turning. Here's Why I ...

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

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Looted art must be returned - but on a case-by-case basis

Looted art must be returned - but on a case-by-case basis

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

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The UK government is trying to draw museums into a fake culture war | Dan Hicks

The UK government is trying to draw museums into a fake culture war | Dan Hicks

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

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Does George Osborne at the British Museum Signal a Dangerous Blow to the Arts? - ELEPHANT

Does George Osborne at the British Museum Signal a Dangerous Blow to the Arts? - ELEPHANT

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

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What are the next challenges for cultural restitution?

What are the next challenges for cultural restitution?

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

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Decolonising museums isn't part of a 'culture war'. It's about keeping them relevant | Dan Hicks

Decolonising museums isn't part of a 'culture war'. It's about keeping them relevant | Dan Hicks

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

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If the Queen has nothing to hide, she should tell us what artefacts she owns | Dan Hicks

If the Queen has nothing to hide, she should tell us what artefacts she owns | Dan Hicks

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

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Comment | Britain stole the royal, sacred Benin Bronzes from Nigeria-so why is Germany leading th...

Comment | Britain stole the royal, sacred Benin Bronzes from Nigeria-so why is Germany leading th...

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

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New Books | The Brutish Museums

New Books | The Brutish Museums

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

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How Did the Benin Bronzes Come to Europe? Here's How Colonial Powers Raced to Loot Them Amid a Pr...

How Did the Benin Bronzes Come to Europe? Here's How Colonial Powers Raced to Loot Them Amid a Pr...

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

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Why won't the British Museum return the Benin Bronzes?

Why won't the British Museum return the Benin Bronzes?

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

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Britain must give the Benin Bronzes back to Africa - it's our moral duty

Britain must give the Benin Bronzes back to Africa - it's our moral duty

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

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'The looting was a chaotic free-for-all': Dan Hicks on the pillaging of the Benin Bronzes and how...

'The looting was a chaotic free-for-all': Dan Hicks on the pillaging of the Benin Bronzes and how...

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

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Fallism and restitution: Removing racist statues and returning looted art objects - New African M...

Fallism and restitution: Removing racist statues and returning looted art objects - New African M...

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

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Hew Locke Challenges Empire in Birmingham

Hew Locke Challenges Empire in Birmingham

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

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'A Radical Slowing Down': How Museums Are Responding to Our Troubling Times

'A Radical Slowing Down': How Museums Are Responding to Our Troubling Times

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

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Why Colston Had to Fall

Why Colston Had to Fall

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

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