"The noise, abruptness of the actual explosion, and the repetitiveness of the display made people believe that there were gunshots ringing out... 'The times that we live in, I mean, look at what just happened in Lebanon,' " #MuseumsAreNotNeutralwww.cbsnews.com/amp/losangel...
The Getty Museum is apologizing after their highly-anticipated kickoff for a new arts event was a little too explosive to the liking of the community on Sunday.
Museums: I love āem and hate āem, but want to see them done right. #MuseumsAreNotNeutral and are a fascinating mirror reflecting society and change (or stagnation) inside and out. Visitors, communities, cultural workersāitās all complex. Wanna be inspired and daunted by the world? We got ya covered.
āFragen der politischen Haltung und der politischen Einflussnahme greifen in den Arbeitsalltag der Museen ein und erfordern wirksame Strategien.ā sagt Wiebke Ahrndt, PrƤsidentin des Deutschen Museumsbundes. #MuseumMitHaltung#MuseumsAreNotNeutral
Chemnitz wird 2025 nicht nur Kulturhauptstadt Europas, sondern auch Mekka deutscher Museen. Dann wollen sie ihre Rolle angesichts neuer gesellschaftlicher Herausforderungen justieren.
I feel like the 'artifact removed' tags in Smithsonian museums would have more impact with context. Like, not removed for cleaning or study or whatever, but because it was looted so it's been removed from display or repatriated. e.g.
Three US museums marked the return of the sculptures with a ceremony in Washington, DC.
āLoanā is saying a lot V&A #MuseumsAreNotNeutral
"The UK is sending some of Ghana's 'crown jewels' back...150 years after looting them from the court of the Asante king. A gold peace pipe is among 32 items returning under long-term loan deals....The Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) is lending 17 pieces and 15 are from the British Museum."
Treasures taken 150 years ago will go back, the BBC can reveal, in a possible model for other disputes.
And there should be far more attention to how Harvard's exploitation of people's bodies is part of the ongoing colonial project. Its Peabody Museum has hair of Indigenous people. Institutional leaders continue refusing to give daguerreotypes of enslaved people to descendant. #MuseumsAreNotNeutral
yknow maybe this should have been the big Harvard scandal rather than the plagiarism thing www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
The suspects āstole dissected portions of donated cadavers, including, for example, heads, brains, skin, bones, and other human remains," an indictment says.
Why won't the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum return a painting it knows was stolen by the Nazis?
Nazis stole a Camille Pissarro painting from a Jewish woman in 1939. It should be returned to her family, no matter what a court says.
Newly unsealed court files reveal more detailed underage sex accusations against billionaire arts patron Les Wexner.
In a since-settled lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell, Virginia Giuffre said she had sex with the billionaire up to 10 times while underage.