Museums
All Objects Have Meaning – So How Do Museums Contextualize Shame?
As museums face increasing pressure to be responsive to historical intersections and contradictions in their presentation of works, it can be risky to introduce audiences, who otherwise might not seek complexity born out of conflict, to objects that may provoke embarrassment or pain.
Social Issues
Museum devoted to Palestinian art to celebrate international women’s day with exhibition
The show features more than 200 works by women artists such as Samia Halaby and Laila Shawa
Crime & Theft
Replicating Nepal’s stolen gods
(Nepal) Nepali Times, 21st Feb 2020.
Archaeology, Artifacts & Antiquities
A ‘Byzantine Pompeii’, Discovered By, And Now Threatened By, Subway Construction
“At stake [in Thessaloniki, Greece’s second city,] is not one building or artefact but the entire central junction of the city as it existed in late Roman times: a covered, colonnaded space where carriages once rattled past.
Fine Art
Art Literally Made Of Bones (And Other Human Remains)
The British got a lot wrong as the empire spread, and one facet of colonial mistakes was how to look at Tibetan religious and art objects made of skulls or thighbones. “To British colonial officials and missionaries in the 19th and early 20th centuries, such items were morbid examples of devil worship. To Tibetans they […]
