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?
Drawing attention to "provenance" at the Met
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Courtesy of Christos Tsirogiannis
One of largest group of repatriated material from New York's Metropolitan
Museum of Art was dervied from Palladion Antike...
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