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The Backlash Against Oil Sponsorship Can Push for Broader Change in Museums

Avatar photo by Alice Procter March 20, 2022March 18, 2022

The British Museum’s complicity in BP’s artwashing ranks alongside the museum’s continual refusal to engage with its own colonial history.

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Peeling Back the Hidden, Colonial Layers of Museum Objects

Avatar photo by Michael Press July 30, 2020November 5, 2020

With her recent book, Alice Procter shows us the things many museums hide, the parts of objects’ histories that aren’t warm and fuzzy (or flattering for the institutions that now hold them).

Posted inBooks

Shaking Up the Ethnographic Museum

Avatar photo by Edward M. Gómez July 18, 2020November 5, 2020

In a new book, the curator and art historian Clémentine Deliss proposes that “ethnographic” artifacts be reconsidered, remediated — and maybe even returned to their original owners.

Abraham van Westerveld, "Witte Cornelisz. de With" (17th century) (Bonhams, via Wikimedia Commons)
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Dutch Art Museum Chooses to Change Its Colonialist Name

by Elena Goukassian September 11, 2017September 12, 2017

The Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam is named for a 17th-century naval officer who worked for both the Dutch West India and the Dutch East India companies.

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Why the Rijksmuseum Is Removing Bigoted Terms from Its Artworks’ Titles

Avatar photo by Carey Dunne December 22, 2015December 30, 2015

If you’re browsing the digital collection of Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum, you might come across a 1594 painting by Cornelisz van Haarlem, “Bathsheba at her Toilet,” picturing “the beautiful Bathsheba” bathing outside the castle of King David.

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Join Us to Discuss #KimonoWednesdays and the Decolonialization of Museums #ArtTalk

Avatar photo by Hyperallergic October 1, 2015October 14, 2015

In light of the recent Museum of Fine Arts, Boston’s “Kimono Wednesdays” controversy, we’d like to explore the issues of minority representation in mainstream US museums and who gets to decide how cultural artifacts are represented and presented to the public.

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