The British Museum is hitting back against a former longtime employee who allegedly stole and often sold some 1,800 objects from its collection. Attorneys for trustees of the museum made a 24-page ...
July 22 (Reuters) - A Brazilian conceptual artist swapped a historic British coin for a fake in the British Museum to highlight the large number of foreign objects it holds. Ilê Sartuzi said the idea ...
A Brazilian conceptual artist swapped a historic British coin for a fake in the British Museum to highlight the large number of foreign objects it holds. Ile Sartuzi said the idea came to him when he ...
The artist aimed to use sleight of hand to point to what he described as the museum’s problematic legacy of colonial-era acquisitions. By Sarah Hurtes Reporting from London A Brazilian artist strolled ...
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The artifact had been on view at a table inside the British Museum in London. Mike Kemp / In Pictures via Getty Images On June 18, a Brazilian artist walked into the British Museum, pocketed a ...
"This volume of the Catalogue of Coins ... has been undertaken by Mr. C. Wilson Peck at my invitation with the approval of the Trustees."--Pref., signed John Walker ...