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Ukrainian Cultural Heritage: A Victim of Russian Aggression
As a result of systematic attacks by the Russian armed forces on Ukrainian cities, civilians are killed and injured, and civilian objects...
Afrodescendants Claim Rights to Benin Bronzes—They Belong to All of Us
We are the Restitution Study Group (RSG), a New York-based non-profit founded in 2000 to campaign for innovative approaches to healing...
Deadria Farmer-Paellmann et al
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Ukrainian Heritage Held Hostage: Crimean Gold’s Long Way Home
I. Introduction 2014 was the beginning of a turbulent but crucial journey for the Ukrainian identity to gain a foothold. In February of...
Leila Kazimi
18 min read
Art under Siege: In Conversation with Mykhailo Glubokyi
Three Stories of Art and War II коли гуркочуть гармати- музи замовкають The Russian invasion catapulted the Ukrainian art world into...
Constance Uzwyshyn
10 min read
Art at the Arsenal: In Conversation with Olesya Ostrovska-Liuta
Three Stories of Art and War I коли гуркочуть гармати- музи замовкають The Russian invasion catapulted the Ukrainian art world into...
Constance Uzwyshyn
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Power and Performativity: In Conversation with Professor Judith Butler
A front-runner in the fight for equality and justice, Professor Judith Butler is one of the most influential philosophers of the past...
Teresa Turkheimer
26 min read
Building the Jam Factory: In Conversation with Bozhena Pelenska
Three Stories of Art and War III коли гуркочуть гармати- музи замовкають The Russian invasion catapulted the Ukrainian art world into...
Constance Uzwyshyn
9 min read
The Task of the Curator in the Era of Reconciliation
Acknowledgements I would like to begin by acknowledging that the land within which I wrote this research paper is Mi’Kma’ki, the...
Caroline DeFrias
36 min read
Notes on Counter-Archives: ‘Recovering’ Queer Memory in Contemporary Art
Introduction In Zoe Leonard’s photograph of Fae Richards and June Walker, two women wrap their arms around each other and gaze lovingly...
Sophia Dime
36 min read
The Art Industry in Ukraine During the War
The article examines the current state of the Ukrainian contemporary art market in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the...
Gallery Portal 11
38 min read
Private Collectors and the Public Institution: In Conversation with Philip Hoffman
Philip Hoffman is Founder and CEO of the Fine Art Group, which focusses on art advisory, investment, and philanthropy. At 33 he became...
Ollie Gerlach
7 min read
Shaping Taste in Changing Times at the Royal Academy: In Conversation with Rebecca Salter
Rebecca Salter is a painter. She is President of the Royal Academy of Arts, the first woman in the role. She has a strong interest in...
Lily-Rose Morris-Zumin
10 min read
Of Monuments
On 9 April 2003, in the immediate aftermath of the fall of Baghdad, in the first month of the invasion of Iraq, a crowd assembled in...
Jeremy Strick
8 min read
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
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
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
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
Directing the Design Biennale: In Conversation with Victoria Broackes
Victoria Broackes is Director of the 2021 London Design Biennale. Previously she worked for the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A): as...
Joseph Court
11 min read
Geopolitics and Innovation at Louvre Abu Dhabi: In Conversation with Manuel Rabaté and Dr Souraya Noujaim
Manuel Rabaté is Director of Louvre Abu Dhabi. He has taught Arts & Cultural Management at Paris-Dauphine University and Paris-Sorbonne...
Alexander (Sami) Kardos-Nyheim
8 min read
The Future of the Museum of London: In Conversation with Sharon Ament
Sharon Ament is the Director of the Museum of London, and inspiring passion in the capital and its museum is her goal. Sharon joined the...
Joseph Court
10 min read
The Cultural Logic of Statues
A statue tumbles and, with an almighty splash, sinks below the water. Those responsible cheer with joy. Onlookers are captured in a range...
Jack Graveney
12 min read
Steering the Royal Academy in Pandemic Times: In Conversation with Axel Rüger
Axel Rü̈ger is Secretary and Chief Executive of the Royal Academy of Arts. He is a former Director of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam...
Louisa Stuart-Smith
6 min read
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