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This Gallery Is Dedicated to the Aesthetic Joys of Rust
Stephen Raw, the 69-year-old artist behind the project, has been photographing and collecting rusty objects since he was 17.
Posted inOpinion
The Parthenon Sculptures Should be Repatriated Immediately
The principle that one misdeed deserves to be redressed before another, because it stems from a situation of greater violence, is wrong.
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Return of Parthenon Marbles to Greece is Up to British Museum, UK Official Says
In a meeting in London, the Greek Prime Minister reiterated an offer to loan other artworks to the British institution in exchange for the priceless marbles.
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London’s National Gallery Identifies 67 Museum Patrons Connected to Slavery
A new report by the museum names the “art collectors, connoisseurs, donors, and founders of museums and galleries across Britain” who benefitted from enslavement.
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Princess Diana’s Return to the Pop Culture Spotlight
The ‘People’s Princess’ features in multiple documentaries, trendy fashion lines, prestige TV, and now a biopic starring Kristen Stewart. What’s behind the new Diana mania?
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Strikingly Preserved Roman Statues Discovered During Railway Dig
Archaeologists excavating along the route of the new HS2 railway in England unearthed three Roman busts in a find they describe as “once in a lifetime.”
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The Problem With Exhibitions About “The Times We Live In”
The noble ambitions of these shows doom them to be listicles, box-ticking exercises struggling to meaningfully speak to the issues of our sociocultural moment.
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Curator Discovers What May Be the World’s Earliest Depiction of a Ghost
“Everybody in Mesopotamia, as far as I understand it, believed in ghosts,” said Irving Finkel, a curator of the British Museum’s Middle Eastern department.
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Nigerian Artists Offer to Swap Work for British Museum’s Benin Bronzes
“We never stopped making the bronzes even after those ones were stolen,” said a founding member of the Ahiamwen Guild. “I think we make them even better now.”
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What Public Art Might Look Like After the Pandemic
Our approach as an organization with 25 years of experience in producing digital community arts has been to reverse the power relations.
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Pro-Palestinian Artwork by Forensic Architecture Was Censored by University of Manchester
After learning that its statement had been removed from the exhibition, Forensic Architecture requested that its works be withdrawn from the exhibition.