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As once-colonized nations seek to stand on their own, the countries once denuded of their past seek to assert their independent identities through the objects that tie them to it. The demand for restitution is a way to reclaim history, to assert a moral imperative over those who were once overlords. Those countries still in the shadow of more powerful empires seek to claim the symbols of antiquity and colonialism to burnish their own national mythmaking.

~ Sharon Waxman

Sharon Waxman Art Colonialism Museums Nationalism

As cultural politics change, museums change with them.

~ Sharon Waxman

Sharon Waxman Art Cultural Politics Museums

I used to wonder: Do only ignorant laypeople gaze on the colossal bust of Ramses II at the British Museum and ask themselves how it ended up there? Is it only the unschooled visitor who looks at the soaring column from the Temple of Artemis at the Met and questions why it exists in this place?

~ Sharon Waxman

Sharon Waxman Art Colonialism Museums Plunder
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