When we talk about preserving and digitising cultural heritage, most people picture the art and objects that make up a museum’s collections. Certainly, these works are vital signifiers of both ...

Can the Western museum be decolonised? This is the question posed by Françoise Vergès in A Programme of Absolute Disorder: ...

Tasneem Zakaria Mehta, director of Mumbai’s Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum (BDL), reminds us that these institutions were never neutral. In her essay ‘Decolonising the Museum’, she writes that ...

Through everyday, playful actions like vacuuming a paddock or attempting to climb an electric fence, she disrupts the settler identity and reflects on her own decolonising process ... late-night walks ...

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As President Trump launches an offensive against 'woke' art, the Picasso Museum shows works that the Nazis singled out ...

At a time when it is under scrutiny from the White House, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and ...

The plan to eliminate the endowments for the arts and the humanities. Also: A threat to impose tariffs on movies made abroad.

More than ever, we need places that teach us about nature — places where we can see and touch it, places that tell stories of ...

Therefore, across the formerly colonial world, as countries became independent, a key priority was what Ngugi wa’ Thiongo, the Kenyan writer, termed ‘decolonising the mind’. Reimagining education was ...