Art
What the "Nefertiti Hack" Tells Us About Digital Colonialism
A hacked 3D scan of the famous sculpture shows how traditional models of heritage ownership might change in museums.
Colonialism
Opinion
On Nostalgia and Colonialism on the New Oregon Trail
What does it mean to reform a game based on a violent history of land theft and appropriation?
Art
Teresita Fernández Depicts Caribbean Colonialism and Eco-Trauma
Fernández employs motifs of darkness and obscurity to hint at the something beyond what we see.
Art
At British Museum, a Promising But Flawed Start to Grappling With Colonialism
“Empire and Collecting,” a new self-guided tour, reflects an attempt to help visitors understand the colonial origins of the collection.
Art
How Academics, Egyptologists, and Even Melania Trump Benefit From Colonialist Cosplay
From khakis to pith hats, certain items of clothing have become enduring emblems of European colonialism and particular scholars who know these problematic histories choose to engage in the aesthetics of colonialism in their everyday lives.
Books
Can We Unlearn Imperialism? Ariella Azoulay Offers Methods and Lessons
In Potential History, the violence of photography saturates the very idea of European “progress,” resonating from Palestine to the Congo to Black America.
Interview
The Filmmaker Who Investigated One Conspiracy, Only to Uncover Another
Director Mads Brügger talks to Hyperallergic about his new documentary Cold Case Hammarskjöld.
Art
A Caribbean Present Steeped in a Colonial Past
In Coffee, Rhum, Sugar & Gold: A Postcolonial Paradox, ten artists explore the implications of colonialism's violent legacy.
Interview
One Museum’s Complicated Attempt to Repatriate a “Benin Bronze”
The RISD Museum has held this Benin bronze head in its collection for 80 years. "No one would have given it up unless under duress," the curators say. But tracing its provenance and repatriating it is no simple matter.
Film
A Cuban Filmmaker's Brutal Satire of Religion and Colonialism
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s The Last Supper plays as part of Film Forum's ongoing series The Hour of Liberation: Decolonizing Cinema, 1966-1981, which presents both classic and overlooked anti-imperialist films.
Art
Pseudoarchaeology and the Racism Behind Ancient Aliens
Where, exactly, the idea of ancient aliens building the pyramids began — and why some academics think racism lies at the heart of many extraterrestrial theories.
Art
Mel Chin’s Tongue-in-Cheek Encyclopedia of the World
He stares down the evils that have driven history, intervenes in public spaces, and collaborates with science — all in service to strengthening community