Erin L. Thompson

Art

Stolen Deities Resurface in a Dallas Museum

A blogger’s shaky snapshots from an exhibition opening reveal where a Lakshmi-Narayana statue stolen from a temple in Kathmandu in 1984 had ended up: the Dallas Museum of Art.

Visitors at the British Museum (photo by Mark Ramsay, via Flickr)

Opinion

Museums Should Consider Why They’ve Become Targets of Attack and Protest

A terror plot targeting the British Museum was recently thwarted, but the reasons why it became a target in the first place go far beyond the current political climate.

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