It is the duty of conservators to preserve physical and intangible object authenticity? Increasingly attention is turning towards acknowledging the issue of non-Western heritage that is separated from its cultural context. Illustrated in the case of ‘Hoa Hakananai’a’ at the British Museum; a living ancestor or a colonial curiosity?
A head of Hermes from a genuinely old Italian collection
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Source: San Antonio Museum of ArtAmong the deaccessioned items from the San
Antonio Museum of Art in January 2022 was a marble head of Hermes. The head
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