In the shadow of 2020 and bang in the middle of a world on fire, a highly publicised exhibit of select works by an Italian master can’t help but feel slightly […]
Category: Arts
The British Museum will lend a famous Benin object to its owners. Is that enough?
Colonialist looting took thousands of African artefacts which now sit in Western museums, far from their native lands. Many countries whose artifacts were stolen by colonialists have been demanding their return for decades, and the […]
From Hong Kong to Goldsmiths: the revolution of our times?
Hundreds of multi-colored sticky notes cover one wall of the exhibition “Liberate Hong Kong, the revolution of our times” at the Goldsmiths Students’ Union (SU) Building. The notes, left by the exhibition’s many visitors, contain […]