When is it OK For Archaeologists to Dig Up the Dead?
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Discover, 7th Sep 2018.
Instead Of Trashing Or Replacing Its Old-Style, Stereotyped Colonists-Meet-Indians Diorama, This Museum Is Interrogating It
The American Museum of Natural History in New York has a 1939 diorama purporting to show a diplomatic meeting between
San Francisco Removes A Statue Of A Native Man Lying At The Feet Of A Missionary
The statue was near City Hall, part of the Pioneer Monument that was put up in 1894 – and which Native peoples in and near the city have been protesting for decades. There’s a lawsuit, of course, but the city didn’t destroy the statue; workers moved it into storage. “After the truck carrying the statue […]
Are Arts Orgs’ Diversity Initiatives Just A New Form Of Paternalism?
That’s the charge made by a few leading arts figures, among them Madani Younis, creative director of London’s Southbank Centre: “This paternalism on the one hand allows institutions to co-opt the concerns of diversity, of gender, of class and so on. On the one hand, you say: ‘That’s super good. These guys are on it, […]
The Story Of ‘Spider-Man’, France’s Most Spectacular Art Thief
“Long before the burglar Vjeran Tomic became the talk of Paris, he honed his skills in Père Lachaise, the city’s largest cemetery … Tomic and his friends turned the cemetery into a parkour playground, leaping from the roof of one mausoleum…
Instead Of Trashing Or Replacing Its Old-Style, Stereotyped Colonists-Meet-Indians Diorama, This Museum Is Interrogating It
The American Museum of Natural History in New York has a 1939 diorama purporting to show a diplomatic meeting between
The UNESCO World Heritage Label May Be Prestigious And Coveted, But Is It Effective?
A Q&A with Lucas Lixinski, a scholar of international cultural heritage and human rights law, argues that the UN body’s project to designate important pieces of cultural heritage is very effective — except for the communities whose culture t…
