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What I saw - what I partially filmed back then ...
In Lomé, just outside our front door, I witnessed something I will never entirely forget. A Voodoo session. A “cleansing ritual.” A small boy, perhaps five years old. His body...
What I saw - what I partially filmed back then ...
In Lomé, just outside our front door, I witnessed something I will never entirely forget. A Voodoo session. A “cleansing ritual.” A small boy, perhaps five years old. His body...
Pictures of footballers can save someone in the...
German version see below We were driving our battered Land Cruiser down a dusty, treacherous country road when rebels appeared. Kalashnikovs in hand, nailed planks blocking our tires. One false...
Pictures of footballers can save someone in the...
German version see below We were driving our battered Land Cruiser down a dusty, treacherous country road when rebels appeared. Kalashnikovs in hand, nailed planks blocking our tires. One false...
Why Didier Ahadji’s Art Is More Precise Than Po...
German version see below The image of a cyclist transporting two barrels of crude oil on a rear rack, in the work of the West African artist Didier Amevi Ahadji,...
Why Didier Ahadji’s Art Is More Precise Than Po...
German version see below The image of a cyclist transporting two barrels of crude oil on a rear rack, in the work of the West African artist Didier Amevi Ahadji,...
Design Without Dialogue: Museums, Markets, and ...
German version see below The current debate on provenance and restitution was shaped less by new insights than by a transformed topology of the moral. Where international art markets, museum...
Design Without Dialogue: Museums, Markets, and ...
German version see below The current debate on provenance and restitution was shaped less by new insights than by a transformed topology of the moral. Where international art markets, museum...
A Retrospective on the Restitution Debate
Let us hope that the Age of Enlightenment will find its continuation in the present.German version see belowWhen I first met Bénédicte Savoy, our conversation did not take place in...
A Retrospective on the Restitution Debate
Let us hope that the Age of Enlightenment will find its continuation in the present.German version see belowWhen I first met Bénédicte Savoy, our conversation did not take place in...
Old Bronzes, New Research Gaps
German version see below In the art historical study of West African metalwork — whether it be the celebrated Benin Bronzes, the naturalistic copper alloy heads from Ife, or the...
Old Bronzes, New Research Gaps
German version see below In the art historical study of West African metalwork — whether it be the celebrated Benin Bronzes, the naturalistic copper alloy heads from Ife, or the...