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Despite Years of Protests, Harvard University to Keep Sackler Name

Despite Years of Protests, Harvard University to Keep Sackler Name

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Harvard University will not remove Arthur M. Sackler’s name from two of its campus buildings, concludes a 15-page report by a committee assigned to review the decision. After years of pressure from students and activists who illuminated the donor’s ties to the devastating opioid crisis fueled by the Sacklers’ pharmaceutical company, Purdue Pharma, the committee […]

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“Dominique White and Alberta Whittle: Sargasso Sea” at ICA, Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

“Dominique White and Alberta Whittle: Sargasso Sea” at ICA, Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

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“Dominique White and Alberta Whittle: Sargasso Sea” explores the impact of transatlantic colonial legacies on contemporary understandings of power, race, gender, and geography. The exhibition takes its name from the natural phenomenon of the Sargasso Sea, the only body of water defined by oceanic currents rather than shorelines. The body of water and how it

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University Museums May Be the Best Repository for Private Antiquities Collections Lacking Provenance

University Museums May Be the Best Repository for Private Antiquities Collections Lacking Provenance

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Editor’s Note: Elizabeth Marlowe is an associate professor of art and art history at Colgate University. Marlowe’s research spans antiquities looting and repatriation, the art market, and the decolonization of museums. The harms of looting—whether colonial plunder or tomb-robbing for cash—have, by this point, been well established. Religious rites go neglected and communal ties fade

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