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Art in Exile at Home: The National Palace Museum, Taiwanese Identity, and China’s Imperial Collection
Between December 1949 and February 1950, three shipments, carrying a total of 3,824 crates of artefacts and artworks from the Qing...
Jean-Michaël Maugüé
11 min read
Beyond Repatriation: The Need for Sensitive Museum Display of Indigenous Objects
Many significant cultural objects have found uncomfortable homes in museums across the world.[1] They have been trapped behind glass,...
Piper Whitehead
13 min read
What Is It that Makes You Tremble?
What is it that makes you tremble?’[1] Jacques Derrida poses this question to discuss the vulnerability that we fear. We see...
Madeleine Nina King
10 min read
Enclosing or Democratising the AI Artwork World
Introduction Artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled prediction algorithms create multiple challenges to existing ideas about human agency...
Robin Mansell
16 min read
Art Law & More: In Conversation with Becky Shaw and Rebecca Foden
Becky Shaw is a Senior Associate at Boodle Hatfield in the firm’s art law and commercial litigation teams. She has worked on cases...
Esmee Wright
5 min read
The Link between British Perceptions of Party Ideological Positions and Electoral Outcomes, 2017-20
Abstract In the wake of successive disappointing election performances by the UK Labour Party, commentators on the party’s centre-right...
Colin Kaljee
20 min read
Rouen Address
This is the text of the Introductory Address read at the conference on temporary exhibitions held at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen on...
Sir Nicholas Penny
9 min read
Politicising the Apolitical: Abstract Expressionism and the Cold War
Abstract Expressionism emerged amid a tense post-war climate, as a new genre of art that seemed so devoid of representational form or...
Mina Polo
10 min read
Interdisciplinarity as a Way of Life: In Conversation with Anthony Julius
Anthony Julius is a solicitor advocate who has represented Princess Diana and Deborah Lipstadt. He is Deputy Chairman of Mishcon de Reya,...
Elizabeth Huang
10 min read
Revitalising the Royal Academy: In Conversation with Sir Christopher Le Brun
Born in Portsmouth in 1951, Sir Christopher Le Brun is a painter, printmaker, and sculptor. As President of the Royal Academy 2011-19, he...
Alexander (Sami) Kardos-Nyheim
7 min read
Something to Write Home about: Postcards of Donbas, Postcards as Donbas
Postcards have long been linked to memory formation, sold primarily as ‘souvenirs’, a term itself deriving from the French verb souvenir...
Alice Mee
10 min read
‘Alterers’ Filtering out Artists: Using the ‘Public’ Perspective to Preserve Moral Rights over Digital Art
In the digital age, the sharing of images is prevalent across a variety of online platforms. Instagram, one of the largest of these, can...
Thomas Hood
9 min read
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Modern Claims against Auction Houses: Sotheby’s v Mark Weiss Ltd and Ors [2020] EWCA Civ 1570, Noted and Analysed
Introduction Frans Hals was a mildly successful seventeenth-century Dutch old master who specialised in portraits. Few of his works...
Edward Mordaunt
17 min read
Who Am I?
One of the problems of having lived a long life is that it brings home to one the many different identities one has occupied in the...
Edward Lucie-Smith
4 min read
The Politics of NHS Spending
The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) was set up in 1948 following the 1942 Beveridge report, a cross-party report which established its...
Fatima Osman
6 min read
Making BBC Four’s African Renaissance: In Conversation with Russell Barnes and Clare Burns
Russell Barnes is a Director and Producer for the documentary production company ClearStory. Clare Burns has worked in television...
Helen Grant
10 min read
In the Wake of Colston: Wake Work after Woke Work
What does it mean to defend the dead? To tend to the Black dead and dying: to tend to the Black person, to Black people, always living in...
Jacob Badcock and Jovan Owusu-Nepaul
19 min read
Traversing the Art Legal System in Early Modern Venice: The Case of Antonio Floriano’s Mappamondo
The application of print privilege (pre-copyright) legislation to Venetian cartography came about by chance.[1] While the Venetian...
Sarah Alexis Rabinowe
26 min read
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