A French Museum Director Pushes Back Against a Radical Report Calling on Macron to Return Looted African Art

By artappraiser on Thu, 12/27/2018 - 7:00pm |

A French museum director pushed back against a report calling on French President Macron to return looted African art. The head of the Musée du @quaibranly criticized the report's authors for tainting every collection with the "impurity of colonial crime." https://t.co/ogj76g9qfq pic.twitter.com/hPvntgx7Nb
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Looks like there is precedent for returning African art to home countries

Martin says restitution “can, in very specific cases, be considered,” as in the case of the Benin sculptures exhibited at Quai Branly that were ransacked from the Dahomey king’s palace in 1892 by the French. That said, he maintains that there have long been examples of these transfers of state-to-state ownership. “The Getty has returned objects to Italy, the British Museum to Australia, the Musée Guimet Museum to China,” he says, arguing that the “current legal apparatus” in place is sufficient to organize the deaccessioning of these works

by rmrd0000 on Sat, 12/29/2018 - 11:48am

A French Museum Director Pushes Back Against a Radical Report Calling on Macron to Return Looted African Art

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