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The Humboldt Forum’s Disappointing Ethnographic Collections

Avatar photo by Rafael Cardoso December 14, 2021December 14, 2021

The Ethnological Museum and Museum of Asian Art were not included in the Forum’s grand inauguration in July, but instead, quietly opened in September.

Posted inOpinion

Berlin’s Humboldt Forum Is a Strange Marriage of Progressive Content and Conservative Form

Avatar photo by Abby Klinkenberg August 16, 2021August 16, 2021

The Humboldt Forum thinks it can genuinely pursue and cultivate “peaceful dialogue between cultures” from a position of global power. I’m not so sure.

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Path Toward Restitution of Benin Bronzes Advances in Germany and UK

by Cassie Packard April 4, 2021April 5, 2021

Thousands of objects were looted from present-day Nigeria by British troops in a punitive mission in 1897.

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Artists and Cultural Workers Oppose Humboldt Forum Opening, Citing Colonial Ties

by Hakim Bishara December 16, 2020December 16, 2020

The protesters called to redirect government funding of the Humboldt Forum towards cultural decolonization initiatives.

Posted inArt

Why the Bauhaus Still Matters in an Era of Neo-Nationalism

Avatar photo by Jordan Troeller September 9, 2020November 5, 2020

A look back at all the questions, contradictions, omissions, and elisions of last year’s bauhaus imaginista exhibition reveals that it was a show about contemporary Germany as a country as much as it is about whatever we are calling “the Bauhaus.”

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