Claim: Repatriating Benin Bronzes Does Not Right A Wrong

“In fact, repatriating artefacts on the basis of what we feel about history would be a serious mistake. Not only would the world’s museums – and institutions like Cambridge University – be emptied, it would be allowing modern-day sensibilities to rewrite history in terms of simplistic goodies and baddies, when it is always more complicated than that.”

source ArtsJournal http://ift.tt/1nlKUUV

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