While Notre-Dame Burned, There Was Also A Fire At Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque
Yes, it’s a strange bit of synchronicity. Thank heaven (as it were), the damage at Al-Aqsa is minor and the fire was put out in seven minutes. – ArchDaily
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Cultural Heritage
When Russia Dealt With Its Own Version Of The Notre-Dame Fire
On a frigid December day in 1857, the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg (now the site of the Hermitage museum) caught fire; in less than two days, the building was completely gutted. As with Notre-Dame, a renovation project helped the fire’s spread, and as with Notre-Dame, the nation’s leader (Tsar Nicholas I) vowed that the […]
Here’s What’s Happened To The Art, Artifacts, And Organ Inside Nôtre-Dame
So far, it appears that almost all of the major art objects and relics in the cathedral were saved, thanks
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Federal Judge Strikes Down Oklahoma Law About Marketing Of Native American Art
“U.S. District Judge Charles B. Goodwin ruled that the Oklahoma Indian Arts and Crafts Sales Act violates the U.S. Constitution because it is more restrictive than a federal law with the same purpose — protecting and promoting Indian artists. The Oklahoma law requires artists to be members of a federally recognized tribe if they are […]
Art Institute Of Chicago Postpones Major Native American Show After Realizing It Didn’t Get Enough Native Input
“‘Worlds Within: Mimbres Pottery of the Ancient Southwest’ … was slated to open May 26 in Regenstein Gallery, the museum’s primary space for temporary exhibitions. But [director] James Rondeau … said that as the show approached it became increasingly clear that more work needed to be done to represent native voices in the project.” – […]
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
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Old Photos Of Enslaved African-Americans Should Belong To Their Descendants, Not Museums, Argues Lawsuit
Just as the law now requires that Native American remains and artifacts should be returned to today’s Native tribes, the descendants of a pair of slaves seen in historic daguerreotypes now owned by a Harvard museum claim that they’re the rightful owners of those slaves’ images, which are, says their lawsuit, “spoils of theft.” – […]
Winnipeg Art Gallery’s Expansion: A Game-Changer For Telling The Stories Of Inuit Art?
When complete, the gallery says the new centre will be home to a collection of contemporary Inuit art unlike any
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A Sociologist Explores Explanations For Why Art By Men Gets Higher Prices Than Art By Women
“Who and what defines art and quality, which institutions matter and how they are accessed, who knows whom, whether advantage
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Looking At Nudes In The #MeToo Era
Museums and galleries – especially those representing a canonical European art tradition – burst with images of women disrobed and displayed for the delectation of men. Of course, there is nothing new about recognising the extent to which the spectacularisation of the female body has been part of a structure of oppression of women by […]