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How a New Nigerian Museum Can Help Repatriate the Benin Bronzes

Nigeria’s business leaders will have to give generously; politicians will have to put rivalries aside; and contemporary artists will have to embrace the project.

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Why Does Quebec’s Museum of Civilization “Own” Human Remains?

In 2016 I noticed an image of tattooed skin affixed to a wooden plaque. Today I initiate court cases against the Ministry of Public Security.

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We Should Think Differently About the Preservation of Racist Monuments

Today more museum professionals are considering what it could mean to exhibit defaced monuments.

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What We Lose if the Amsterdam Hermitage Closes for Good

Thanks to the pandemic, the museum may be on the verge of shutting its doors just when Europe needs its Russian ambassador more than ever.

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A Contested Chicago Monument to Native Americans Gets Caught in the Crossfire of Balkan Nationalisms

Any discussion of “The Bowman and The Spearman” would be incomplete without an understanding of the progressive, idealist politics behind Ivan Meštrović’s chosen style.

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Coco Fusco Enlists Cuban Artists to Recite Heberto Padilla’s Forced Confessions

Fifty years ago, poet Heberto Padilla was forced to publicly denounce himself and his friends as counterrevolutionaries.

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My Experience as a “Minority Intern” at a Museum in the 1990s

There were three “minority interns” at the National Gallery of Art in 1991. I was the “Hispanic” in the group.

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A Black Curator Imagines Otherwise

I almost lost my opportunity to curate the show I'd come to moCa Cleveland to create. But these times are different and I'm unlike anyone to ever work there.