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☆ Opinion | How Museums Handle Cultural Artifacts
  + stars: | 2024-02-13 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
To the Editor:Re “Accountability for Museums’ Plunder, at Last,” by Erin Thompson (Opinion guest essay, Feb. 5):Some might cringe at Ms. Thompson’s suggestion that museums that return stolen artifacts could replace them with replicas. Frankly, my recent museum visits to big-name shows have left me more irritated than awed by being in the presence of revered “originals.”First, the virtual queue tickets, then the snaking lines and then the crush — straining to see over the heads of other acolytes, some of whom cannot resist giving curatorial mini-lectures to their companions as they block your view entirely. And all those iPhones snapping away, held high to capture every precious moment. So much of seeing hyped-up museum exhibits today seems to be about telling people you saw them, not learning from them.
Persons: Erin Thompson
☆ Opinion | Mighty Shiva Was Never Meant to Live in Manhattan
  + stars: | 2024-02-04 | by ( Erin Thompson | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
“Museums have lots and lots of stuff,” I usually answer, fighting the urge to roll my eyes. Now Manhattan’s Rubin Museum of Art, which features art from the Himalayas, has announced that it will close later this year. But looted artifacts alone — removed from their original context, quarantined in an antiseptic display case — cannot do this. Unlike, say, Impressionist paintings or Pop Art sculptures, ritual objects were not meant to be seen in a gallery at a time of the viewer’s choosing. Used alongside music, scents and tastes, these holy relics are tools to help participants in rituals achieve a transcendent experience.
Persons: It’s, Manhattan’s Organizations: Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Museum of, Museum of Art Locations: Cambodia
☆ Charlottesville’s Robert E. Lee Statue Surrenders to the Furnace - The New York Times
  + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Erin Thompson | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +3 min
Confederate monuments bear what the anthropological theorist Michael Taussig would call a public secret: something that is privately known but collectively denied. Even Lee’s burial site at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va. — where he served as president after the war — has changed. The university decided to focus on Lee the civilian rather than Lee the general, for example by moving a prominent portrait of him in uniform. That’s why the idea to melt Lee down, as violent as it might initially seem, struck me as so apt. Confederate monuments went up with rich, emotional ceremonies that created historical memory and solidified group identity.
Persons: Michael Taussig, Jim Crow, Dr, Taussig, don’t, Robert E, Lee, Lee’s, I’ve, you’re Organizations: Arlington House, Arlington National Cemetery, Lee University Locations: Arlington, Washington, Lexington , Va, —
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