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Canadian Museums Association Urges Repatriation of Indigenous Objects

Avatar photo by Jasmine Liu October 2, 2022September 30, 2022

The report estimates that 6.7 million Indigenous objects and human remains continue to be held in Canadian institutions, most of which do not have formal repatriation policies.

Posted inOpinion

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.

Posted inOpinion

Seeking Better Ways for the Art Community to Collaborate with Indigenous Communities

Avatar photo by Hans Baumann April 7, 2022April 7, 2022

Are ecological thinking and decolonial practice merely genres, or are they being used to transform all aspects of arts discourse?

Posted inFilm

Michael Rakowitz’s Recreations of Art Taken From Iraq

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel February 12, 2021February 15, 2021

Hyperallergic has the exclusive premiere of Art21’s Haunting the West, a short film about Rakowitz’s artistic efforts to end the marginalization of West Asian art and history.

Posted inOpinion

A Toppled Statue In Bristol Reveals Limited Understandings of What Decolonizing Requires

Avatar photo by Aditya Iyer June 10, 2020January 11, 2021

Protesters’ removal of Edward Colston’s statue didn’t attack history; instead it corrected how we write it.

Posted inArt

A Brutal, Historic Film About Decolonization

Avatar photo by Eric Vilas-Boas November 4, 2019November 4, 2019

Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers is one of the great films in history to depict insurgent warfare, and New Yorkers can see it for free this week.

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A Team of Curators Designs a System for Indigenous Artists to Thrive In

Avatar photo by Thea Quiray Tagle September 25, 2019September 25, 2019

The term ‘decolonization’ has been used frequently to describe the exhibition yəhaw̓. But you won’t hear its curators call it a decolonial project. So what is it, if not that?

Posted inArt

One Museum’s Complicated Attempt to Repatriate a “Benin Bronze”

Avatar photo by Laura Raicovich June 24, 2019August 30, 2019

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.

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Decolonization: an Act of Independence, Not Benevolence

Avatar photo by Lise Ragbir March 7, 2019June 17, 2020

It’s clear: We need space for new narratives. But how far will we get if the space-making rests in the hands of the colonizers?

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President of France Will Recommend Full Restitution of Looted African Works

Avatar photo by Zachary Small November 20, 2018

The proposed guidelines would bristle the French art world, but they could also endear the French president to the African countries he’s trying to build stronger economic partnerships with.

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After $31 Million Sale of 3,000-Year-Old Assyrian Relief, Experts and Artists Denounce Christie’s

Avatar photo by Zachary Small November 2, 2018

Critics call the recent sale, which shattered previous world records for Assyrian art sales, a callous example of the art market profiting from suffering in the Middle East. Experts speculate that ISIS’s destruction of cultural heritage sites may have boosted the value of the work.

Drums on a triangular bench built by IV Castellanos for "Feet On The Ground," a participatory group performance by Esther Neff, IV Castellanos and Maria Hupfield, 2018. (photo by Crystal Migwans)
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Raising Indigenous Women’s Voices in a Campaign to Decolonize Cultural Institutions

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton March 27, 2018

In a roundtable discussion at the EFA Project Space, Indigenous women and invited guests will hash out how best to center Indigenous voices and decolonize our institutions.

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