News
Tanzanian activists, and at least one government official, want Germany to repatriate the skull of a chief who was killed after fighting German colonists in East Africa.
Art
With "Rethink Shinola," scholar and artist Rebekah Modrak has created a biting, minutely researched critique of an appropriative re-branding of Detroit.
Art
Yasmín Hernández lives in Puerto Rico, and instead of attending a panel discussion at El Museo del Barrio in New York last week she sent this letter outlining the realities of post-hurricane life for an artist.
Art
It's hard not to question why Asmara was named a World Heritage Site, especially as the country is reeling from decades of hardship.
Books
With a Weapon and a Grin, a new book by Stephan Likosky, traces the iconography used to infantilize African soldiers who fought in the French army during World War I.
Film
A new film looks at the life of the female explorer, spy, translator, and archaeologist, who's been largely written out of history.
Art
SALEM, Mass. — The Dutch East India Company wrested control of the Asian spice trade from the Spanish and Portuguese, went on to own virtually all of Indonesia, and monopolized trade with Japan for 200 years.
Opinion
In the past few decades, cultural institutions in the West have increasingly felt pressure to return artifacts acquired through questionable means during the colonial era.
Art
If you want to claim a territory, it's good to have a map to show what's yours. Defining Lines: Cartography in the Age of Empire at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University examines how maps were a form of political control and public perception by Western colonial powers from the 16th and 20th c
Art
BERKELEY, Calif. — Alicia Eler’s recent Hyperallergic post “Searching for the Switzerland of India” raises a host of issues regarding the colonial legacies at play in modern India without dissecting any of them.
News
Last Friday, January 11, Idle No More London staged a UK solidarity action in London's British Museum. Standing in solidarity with the Idle No More movement, which originated last November with the First Nations, Metis, and Inuit communities in Canada, members of Idle No More London chose the museum
Art
(Liu Dao) or island6, a Shanghai-based international collective of “multimedia artists, performers, writers, curators and tech-geeks” personify the aspirations of contemporary China by skirting verboten political flashpoints and keeping their content short, sweet, flirtatious, erotic and electronic.