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Bringing the past into a digital space creates so much more overt space for interpretation and different narratives.
Even our most anonymous objects, like the portable electric drill, are sources of cultural expression. It’s time to learn their history.
Sales of antiquities legally excavated are just as ethically problematic as those likely looted.
His rise was just as swift as his fall. To mark the painter’s 100th birthday, an art historian explores the forces – cultural, political and personal – that created a polarizing legacy.
Do you fancy a virtual stroll through the Musee D'Orsay or printing your very own Vermeer? Technology is transforming museums in a myriad of ways.
The Imperial War Museum was founded to do a very different task to that of today.
Trump has indicated he wants to eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts in his budget to save money. The impact on many US museums could be devastating.
A visit to the US’s racially diverse capital finds a city girding up to survive in a racist world.
Helen Marten, this year’s winner, has revealed a sense of something progressive and pioneering.
The centenary of Natsume Soseki’s death this year is being marked by numerous events, not least his resurrection in robotic form.
The question of repatriating objects is clearly more complex than returning human remains. It needs more debate, and more creative interventions to move beyond the current impasse.
The way humans see and engage with the natural world is anything but natural.
In the past, demolishing the dictator’s residences created a void exploited by Nazi sympathizers.
For more than three decades an egg found in a remote Australian desert was thought to be from a rare nocturnal parrot. So what happened when scientists decided to double-check?
It’s easier than ever to visually record our lives thanks to the smartphone and now Snapchat glasses, but many museums and other places are fighting a losing and misguided battle against the trend.
Repatriation of cultural heritage is being debated at a time of mass migration – is heritage more important to countries that increasingly cannot be defined by their populations?
How can archivists properly preserve computer programs often written specifically to destroy data?
New York’s Met just announced more job cuts to balance its books as the shifting tastes and demographics make it harder to make a museum’s ends meet.
An architect rides through the streets of Rio amidst a cacophony of drills and jackhammers. He wonders: Is it worth it? What will the legacy of all this construction be?
Top contributors
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Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of Art History, Case Western Reserve University
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Honorary Professor, Edith Cowan University
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Assistant Director of the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, University of Cambridge
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Lecturer, The University of Queensland
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Associate Research Professor of Anthropology, University of Colorado Denver
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Professor of Public Humanities, Australian National University
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Eminent Scholar and Professor of Economics Emeritus, Auburn University
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Lecturer in School of Art History and Art Education, UNSW Sydney
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Adjunct Fellow, Place, Evolution and Rock Art Heritage Unit, Griffith University
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Senior Lecturer in Ancient History, Macquarie University
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Director, Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Curator of Australian and First Nations Art, National Gallery of Victoria, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of History, UMass Amherst
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Senior Lecturer School of Art History and Art Education, UNSW Sydney
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Chair in Rock Art Research and Director of the Place, Evolution and Rock Art Heritage Unit (PERAHU), Griffith University
