A 7th-century Head of Buddha was among the antiquities the Metropolitan Museum of Art deaccessioned and returned last year. Courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art “There are a lot of loudmouths …
Unfortunately, this is how Chinese cultural artefacts are presented in the United States. For example, an exhibition in San Francisco, “Phoenix Kingdoms: The Last Splendour of China’s Bronze Age”, is …
Ngaire Blankenberg. Photo Earl Abrahams/Courtesy Ngaire Blankenberg When Ngaire Blankenberg was first appointed director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art in 2021, she wasted no time in shaking …
“You don’t enter immediately into India or China: first, you are in Cambodia.” A courtyard of Khmer sculptures from Angkor, Cambodia, at the entrance to the Guimet. Photo: Guimet National …
Once, art museums felt like a place to get away from all the chaos and confusion of everyday life—a place to enjoy beauty and consider eternal questions of life in …