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5 Mar
@MCHammer a short thread of the five known Benin ivory hip-ornament masks—small portraits of Idia, first Iyoba (Queen Mother) of the 16th-century Benin Kingdom 👇
@MCHammer 1/ This ivory Idia mask is in the British Museum. It was looted by Sir Ralph Moor in the sacking of Benin City, and later bought by the @britishmuseum from anthropologist Charles Seligman #BrutishMuseums Image
@MCHammer @britishmuseum 2/ This is the ivory Idia hip-ornament mask, also looted in 1897, that is currently in the @LindenMuseum in Stuttgart, Germany (but was formerly in the @Pitt_Rivers second collection) Image
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3 Mar
“the destruction of the Kingdom of Benin was in retaliation for colonial insurrection” is not even the silliest claim in today’s FT review
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it gets worse Image
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26 Feb
seriously this is unbelievable
can someone close to @TristramHuntVA please persuade him that this is NOT the moment to resurrect Hugh Trevor-Roper's claim that there is no history in Africa?

even the British Museum lumps Africa and Asia with the Americas!

This proposed scheme is Trumpian in its world-view
the ideology that claims the global south exists outside history has a history.

the V&A scheme is almost precisely that adopted when Oxford divided collections between the multi-department @AshmoleanMuseum and the @Pitt_Rivers in 1884 — the same year as the Berlin Congress.
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26 Feb
this opportunistic restructuring at the @V_and_A is a disaster for all who love museums

the V&A was never a historical museum — it's a museum of design

imposing a "chonological" structure is an attack upon the very purpose and ethos of the institution

theartnewspaper.com/news/radical-r…
solidarity with all those affected by this restructuring and whose jobs are under threat @VandPcs
Given this scale of loss, why not just cancel the white elephant that is V&A East instead?
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23 Feb
The new DCMS "Rapid Evidence Assessment: Culture and Heritage Valuation" is meant to be a literature review on ideas of heritage value.

It includes the most professionally illiterate definition of "culture and heritage physical assets" I've ever read 👇

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…
the consultants missed a trick by not including fascist architect Albert Speer's theory of Ruinenwerttheorie (ruin value) here — could've gone down quite well with the Common Sense Group
on knowing the price of everything, the value of nothing, and nothing at all about heritage management
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23 Feb
Pretty sure it wasn't written by a "baying mob", but the new DCMS report on valuing heritage assets defines sculptures and plaques as — wait for it — "moveable heritage".

And, specifically, as examples of a class of heritage "that can be moved into a collection or is mobile"
A very sensible piece by Robert Hewison on the new report here artsprofessional.co.uk/magazine/artic…
Read the whole of "Valuing culture and heritage capital: a framework towards informing decision making" here gov.uk/government/pub…
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