`Uncomfortable Art Tours’ Question Colonialist Biases in London-Area Museum
As European museums face increased pressure to return African art — much of it taken during the so-called “Scramble for Africa” —
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Artist Silences Her Show In Reaction To Firing Of Museum Director
At Cal State Long Beach, where the museum just fired director Kimberli Myer, artist lauren wood wasn’t having it. “It was something I felt I had to do. … I don’t want anyone to misconstrue that I’m putting myself at the center of the work, or Kimberli at the center, but without her leadership, I […]
Artnet Analysis: How Much Underrepresented African-American Artists Are In US Museums
But since 2008, just 2.4 percent of all acquisitions and gifts and 7.6 percent of all exhibitions at 30 prominent
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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 […]
73,000-Year-Old Drawing, World’s Oldest, Found In South Africa
The relic — a piece of stone marked with a hashtag-type design in red ochre, discovered in an oceanside cave between Cape Town and Port Elizabeth — is roughly 30,000 years older than the oldest previously-known drawings, which were found in Spain and I…
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Brazilians Are Crowdsourcing Images Of Works Lost In National Museum Fire
“While most Brazilians were still reeling from the devastating fire at the country’s National Museum last week, Luana Santos and fellow museum studies students in Rio de Janeiro had started gathering photos and videos of missing items, and even selfies taken by visitors to the vast archive. … Within hours, their appeal went worldwide; so […]
A ‘Genuine’ Leonardo Sells For $83 Million On Russia’s Version Of eBay
“‘Dmitry’, from the town of Mamonovo in the Kaliningrad region, says that the painting, titled A Young Girl in Furs, was authenticated by the Stockholm art valuation firm Atelje Catellani. … Before its removal, four days after it was posted on [the auction site] Avito, the advert read: ‘Attention: I am selling the original Leonardo […]
How Do Most Museums Protect Their Collections From Fire? (Wouldn’t Sprinklers Damage Them?)
“One of the challenges of designing systems for buildings like the [now-destroyed National] Museum of Brazil is balancing the fear of fire itself with the damage that typical fire suppression systems like sprinklers can inflict on precious artifacts. But according to the experts I spoke with,” writes Rachelle Hampton, “that balance can really only be […]
Staffers Ran Into Burning National Museum Of Brazil To Rescue Parts Of Collection
“[Paleontologist Paulo] Buckup, who has worked at the National Museum since 1996, led the group’s harrowing entry into the museum. ‘There were constant collapses while we were inside. There were falling objects and lots of smoke. In one area we realized there was a real risk of the ceiling collapsing, we could not assess when […]