Dan Hicks

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Museum Curator and Professor of Contemporary Archaeology, Oxford University • Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford • Tutor Art/Anthropology • https://linktr.ee/danhicks

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Facebook post from Robert Jenrick, a politician who famously had Mickey Mouse cartoon murals painted over at a children’s asylum centre
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A presidential truth social post that is like the worst one yet
Stay with the Fragments: Thoughts on Monuments, Museums, and Memory
Nyt headline Christopher Columbus Statue Is Installed on White House Grounds
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The Telegraph reporting that “Elon Musk's X has stopped its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot undressing women in photos after Britain threatened to ban the site.”
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On "Distorting History" - a reply to Staffan Lundén Earlier this year a Swedish archaeologist based at Gothenburg University’s Centre for Critical Heritage Studies published an unfounded ad hominem attack on me in the pages of the International Journal of Cultural Property. I am grateful to the editors for this right to reply to Staffan Lundén’s wholly spurious claims, and order to correct the record. Despite its provocative, “clickbait” title, not one substantive mistake or incorrect fact was identified in Lundén’s article in my book “The Brutish Museums”. The motivation for Lundén’s serial accusations against colleagues with whose scholarship on the history of the Benin Expedition he disagrees - from curators at the British Museum to members of the Royal Court of Benin - is discussed. In conclusion, the allegation that my book The Brutish Museums is “part of a trend away from pro-British perspectives” is contextualised and refuted. On the contrary, this reply argues, openness and transparency about the colonial past and present is a key element of the reclamation and reimagining of Britishness that is unfolding in the 2020s – this unfinished period that the book calls “the decade of returns”.
After Declining to Give Trump a Sword for King Charles, a Museum Leader Is Out The departure of Todd Arrington, who led the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, came after the administration sought a sword from its collection as a gift for King Charles.