museum
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In my rare visits to modern art museums, I mumble: “This piece represents an indictment of societal norms.”
Galleries for these works have recently been moved to the museum’s center, just off the courtyard displaying Diego Rivera’s popular “Detroit Industry Murals,” and rehung by Valerie Mercer.
The return of cultural artefacts taken from ex-colonies in Africa and elsewhere has become a sensitive issue, with museums, institutions and collectors in Europe and the United States facing pressure to give them back.
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French museums will in exchange be loaned ancient treasures mainly from the Anglo-Saxon Sutton Hoo site, one of England's most important archaeological locations.
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In some ways, we see, early national museums anticipated fairs’ encyclopedic ambitions.
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