Emeritus Prof Christopher May · @ChrisMayLA6
1982 followers · 5212 posts · Server zirk.us

You know what you think about cultural restorations; the country that stole the work(s) should return them, right?
( are a current high-profile example)

So, you might pause & wonder what do you think about 's 'ownership' of valuable artefacts removed from the Forbidden City when Chiang Kai-shek as he departed with his Nationalist forces to (the then) Formosa?

That the Taiwan Museum seems to have broken 3 pieces (value $66mn) doesn't help when demands them back!

#BeninBronzes #taiwan #china

Last updated 1 year ago

Elizabeth Janik · @kulturplease
37 followers · 49 posts · Server zirk.us

“It was wrong to take the bronzes, and it was wrong to keep them for 120 years.”

Germany has begun the process of repatriating its more than one thousand plundered Benin Bronzes to Nigeria. When will other countries follow suit?

nytimes.com/2022/12/20/arts/be

theguardian.com/world/2022/dec

#BeninBronzes #restitution

Last updated 2 years ago

Regina Kammer · @kammerotica
135 followers · 182 posts · Server mastodon.world

The Horniman Museum in south-east London is returning 72 items, including so-called Benin Bronzes, to Nigerian ownership - making it the first in the UK to officially take such action on this scale.
bbc.com/news/entertainment-art




#BeninBronzes #bronzesculpture #africanart #Museums

Last updated 2 years ago

Regina Kammer · @kammerotica
139 followers · 194 posts · Server mastodon.world

The Horniman Museum in south-east London is returning 72 items, including so-called Benin Bronzes, to Nigerian ownership - making it the first in the UK to officially take such action on this scale.
bbc.com/news/entertainment-art




#BeninBronzes #bronzesculpture #africanart #Museums

Last updated 2 years ago

Regina Kammer · @kammerotica
135 followers · 178 posts · Server mastodon.world
Regina Kammer · @kammerotica
139 followers · 194 posts · Server mastodon.world
sophia · @sophiapetrillo
21 followers · 196 posts · Server toot.community

In the wake of Germany’s decision to return , the work is not over; restitution is not complete.
“Agency and control of knowledge production is the goal,” Monica Hanna states, “and Egyptians are not required either to build a museum or prove themselves to Europeans in order to get their stolen heritage back.”

hyperallergic.com/647998/what-

#BeninBronzes #nefertiti #museum #colonialism

Last updated 2 years ago

Bookwormlit · @Bookwormlit
52 followers · 171 posts · Server sfba.social
Bookwormlit · @Bookwormlit
65 followers · 208 posts · Server sfba.social