Public Intellectual
Public Intellectual
Jessa Crispin
The British Museum is Haunted, with Dan Hicks
44 minutes Posted Oct 26, 2020 at 1:31 pm.
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Who owns a cultural object? Who benefits from artistic production? Where is the line between looting and preservation? While museums have been thought of as this cultural good, these bright shining sacred institutions of learning and edification, they are also the sight of plunder, erasure, and exploitation. Dan Hicks, author of The Brutish Museums, talks with Jessa about what the hard work of decolonization might actually look like. 

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