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Few Mexican objects in European collections have been more contested than the so-called penacho de Moctezuma, a feather headdress on display at the Weltmuseum in Vienna.
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This volume collects about fifty years’ worth of essays by the doyen of the English-language study of iconoclasm.
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My grandfather must have bought me the Junior School Dictionary soon after it was published, because my mother and I left India in 1982. I imagine carting this volume across the oceans, from Madras (it was still called Madras then) to Bethesda, Maryland…
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An exploration of a group of boxed glass vessels and the networks of distribution that connected them from the Red Sea to the courts of Southeast and East Asia.
Notes from the Field
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Book ReviewDanish Modern Furniture 1930–2016: The Rise, Decline and Re-Emergence of a Cultural Market Category
Though the original Danish version of this book was published in 2006, sustained interest in Scandinavian mid-century modern design in popular and academic circles makes this new, expanded English edition most welcome.
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Book ReviewThe Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution
Dan Hicks’s book is true to the period of its subject for he has written a Victorian melodrama.
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Book ReviewIconoclasm
This volume collects about fifty years’ worth of essays by the doyen of the English-language study of iconoclasm.
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Book ReviewThe Contested Crown: Repatriation Politics between Europe and Mexico
Few Mexican objects in European collections have been more contested than the so-called penacho de Moctezuma, a feather headdress on display at the Weltmuseum in Vienna.
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Exhibition NotesEaglemania: Collecting Japanese Art in Gilded Age America
A monumental Meiji-era bronze sculpted eagle with a nine-foot wingspan broods over the Daley Family Gallery at the McMullen Museum of Art. Now restored to its original appearance, for decades the eagle hid in plain sight atop a granite column on the Boston College campus…