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Dan Hicks

Dan Hicks is Professor of Contemporary Archaeology at Oxford University and Curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum. His latest book is The Brutish Museums, Twitter @ProfDanHicks and Instagram @ProfDanHicks

Posted inBooks

Beware the Rise of Anti-Anti-Colonialism

Avatar photo by Dan Hicks April 24, 2023April 24, 2023

Two new books by Nigel Biggar and Adam Kuper advocate for wilful amnesia and collective repression of British colonial brutality.

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UK Welcomes Restitution, Just not Anti-Colonialism

Avatar photo by Dan Hicks August 26, 2022August 29, 2022

“The work of cultural restitution must be about what we give up, not just what or how we give back,” writes Dan Hicks in response to Arts Council England’s new restitution guidelines for museums.

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The Risks That Lurk in Europe’s “Scramble for Decolonization”

Avatar photo by Dan Hicks July 6, 2022July 6, 2022

As the global consensus on restitution passes the tipping point, some skepticism towards these sudden, improbable Damascene conversions towards restitution is probably justified.

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Hew Locke Challenges Empire in Birmingham

Avatar photo by Dan Hicks June 17, 2022June 21, 2022

The artist realized what he previously called an “impossible proposal,” building a ship around a public statue of Queen Victoria, where she’s joined by five smaller replicas of herself.

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Unmasking a History of Colonial Violence in a German Museum

Avatar photo by Dan Hicks March 28, 2022March 29, 2022

At Leipzig’s Grassi Museum, a Tanzanian-German artist collaboration is reimagining the removal of a plinth as sculptural gesture in its own right.

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His Mark features a collection of new and recent video installations, including never-before-shown self-portrait work and 3D video.

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