For decades—if not centuries—people on plantations in Congo and elsewhere have been deprived of culture and forced into unpaid labor. This violence has supported wealth and art in the Global North, ...
A view of a model that depicts the controversial "Big Larry" statue in the fictional town. (screenshot from the Rutherford Falls trailer) In 1987, James Luna, a Payómkawichum (Luiseño) and ...
In the aftermath of last year's malignant theatrics of public apologies from the Dutch government, municipalities, financial institutions, and recently the monarchy itself for the genocidal ...
Jenna Hickey/DAILY. Buy this photo. Elizabeth Marlowe, professor of art history and the founder of the Museum Studies Program at Colgate University, gave a lecture on decolonizing museums Thursday ...
From the roots of manifest destiny to the pillaging of cultural objects, museums have a long history of malpractice that have not only disregarded the rights and consent of indigenous communities but ...
Decolonizing the art museum: In the New York Times, Olga Viso, who helped remove Sam Durant’s sculpture Scaffold (with the artist’s approval) from the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis last year ...
Museums with Indigenous ancestral objects on display should consider how they’re teaching the public about those artifacts and the people who once used them, says Audrey Rochette, a University of ...
The San Diego Museum of Man in Balboa Park has a new name: Museum of Us. The shift is timely, given the nation’s unfolding social-justice reckoning, but it was years in the making. It is both an ...