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An exhibit in the museum’s Northwest Coast Hall repeats the false claim that the bodies of ‘215 Indigenous children’ were found at Kamloops, B.C. in ‘unmarked graves.’
An Artist's Response to James Kierstead’s “The Elgin Marbles: Playing for Keeps"
The Ancient Greek sculptures are a bellwether of where the “decolonization” of museums is headed.
How the bronze crucifix in the Art Gallery of Ontario got from seventeenth-century Rome to twenty-first century Toronto is an intriguing tale, but it is a narrative filled with gaps.
The firing of the AIC docents was only possible because unpaid staffers are not covered by its provisions, and the MMA was able to circumvent equal opportunity requirements by exclusively recruiting from local black colleges.
Activists wanted museums to pivot away from historic collections and towards their audiences, focusing more on excluded groups.