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

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

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

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

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.

Posted inArt

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

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”

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.

Posted inOpinion

Decolonization: an Act of Independence, Not Benevolence

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?

Posted inNews

President of France Will Recommend Full Restitution of Looted African Works

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.

Posted inNews

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

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)
Posted inArt

Raising Indigenous Women’s Voices in a Campaign to Decolonize Cultural Institutions

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.

Posted inArt

As Artist-Organizer from Decolonize This Place Is Detained By Israeli Military, Calls for Boycott Grow

by Yates McKee and Andrew Ross January 15, 2018February 4, 2021

A member of the Decolonize This Place art collective was arrested this month by Israeli authorities and he became the latest victim of an oppressive system that continues to impact the lives of millions of people.

Posted inNews

#DecolonizeThisPlace Demands Removal of Natural History Museum’s Roosevelt Statue [UPDATED]

by Hrag Vartanian October 10, 2016October 11, 2016

Over 200 people took part in the Decolonize This Place tour of the American Museum of Natural History, and joined the rally outside the museum to remove the controversial Roosevelt statue.

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