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When I started this blog, I wanted to talk about museums and museology, collections management and conservation.

But I am so damn tired of the sector. Of how workers are treated and how poor our wages are and the working conditions.

I'm just.... absolutely disheartened.

I don't wanna do this anymore. So I guess I'm changing careers.

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Fresco from Pompeii.

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In case you wondered what was happening to the art in Ukraine and Poland. I've watched most of Waldemar Januszczak's art history documentaries - he's great for both the art and the architecture which is honestly all I ever want to travel for. But the Polish museum director discussing how things are put in storage, and reminding the viewer that the area has been at war since 2018... The art discussion in this is different than the usual.

We've had is so very easy in the US - we don't have air raid sirens or worries about what we'd do with our cultural artifacts if our towns are destroyed. Am going to spend today feeling grateful for that security and sad that it's a thing that's threatened anywhere.

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Musings of a Museum Professional.

We have stanchions and ropes up for a reason. If there is a rope up in front of a door, that means we don’t want you going through that door. It doesn’t mean take it down and go off on your own little adventure. 

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La France va restituer 26 œuvres d’art pillées au Bénin pendant la colonisation - Le Parisien

Lors du cours sur les ressources muséales que j'ai suivi l'an dernier à l'université de Bergame, nous avons abordé le sujet de la restitution d'objets pillés. J'avais été sensibilisée à ce sujet grâce à cette scène de Black panther et je suis heureuse de voir que mon pays fait un pas dans la bonne direction. Ce n'est qu'un début et j'espère que nous continuerons à faire les bons choix et les bons gestes, en innovant pour donner une nouvelle vie à nos musées et créer un monde plus juste.

#decolonize museums

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Where time is transformed into space.

ig: fieldnotesbyfi.

#museum display #national gallery london

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Musings of a Museum Professional.

#54. Some days you lead tours, some days you work in collections and some days you spend doing arts and crafts in preparation for the annual fundraising gala.

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That's Why We Have Museums. x

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Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy | Mark Hintsa

#gallerie degli uffizi #palazzo pitti #museum display

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Tate Britain by vebriisfebruary.

#museum collections #tate britain #museum display

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France returns stolen ancient artifacts to Pakistan

PARIS (Reuters) - France returned more than 400 stolen artifacts to the government of Pakistan on Tuesday, including ancient busts, vases, urns and goblets, some dating to the second and third millennia B.C.

Many of the pieces turned up in France in September 2006, sent in parcels addressed to a gallery in Paris.

The packages were intercepted by customs officers at Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport and identified by the National Centre for Scientific Research as items looted from cemeteries in Pakistan’s Indus valley.

Another consignment of pottery and terracotta pieces destined for the same gallery was stopped two weeks later. And during a search of the unnamed gallery’s premises, customs officers seized several hundred more ceramic pieces. Read more.

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#non academic text #decolonize museums #museums are not neutral

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Artist profile: Gerard Sekoto

‘Art is the spark, the illumination which is socially significant for it brings about understanding’ – Gerard Sekoto (1913–1993)

Gerard Sekoto was born in Botshabelo, Mpumalanga province, in 1913, the year in which the Natives Land Act dispossessed many black South Africans of their ancestral lands. In 1938 Sekoto moved to Sophiatown, Johannesburg. He held his first solo exhibition the following year, and in 1940 the Johannesburg Art Gallery purchased his work Yellow Houses – A Street in Sophiatown (1939–1940). It was the first painting by a black South African artist to be acquired by a South African art institution, although Sekoto had to pose as a cleaner to see his own painting hanging in the gallery.

Sekoto based this painting, titled Song of the Pick (1946), on a photograph taken in the 1930s of black South African workers labouring under the watchful eye of a white foreman standing behind them. However, in his painting the dynamic has changed. Sekoto has enhanced the grace and power of the labourers, turning them to confront the small and puny figure of the overseer, who appears about to be impaled by their pickaxes.

Sekoto painted this work in the township of Eastwood in Pretoria, shortly before moving to Paris in what became a lifelong exile from South Africa. During the 1980s, postcard-sized reproductions of this iconic painting were widely distributed in South Africa, as both a badge of honour and a source of inspiration in the struggle against apartheid.

Explore a diverse range of art stretching back 100,000 years in our exhibition South Africa: the art of a nation (27 October 2016 – 26 February 2017).

Exhibition sponsored by Betsy and Jack Ryan

Logistics partner IAG Cargo

Song of the Pick, 1946. Image © Iziko Museums of South Africa, Art Collections, Cape Town. Photo by Carina Beyer.

Song of the Pick was based on this image, taken by photographer Andrew Goldie in the 1930s.

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I’ve been a bit lax with my museum postings, so picking up where I left off… Paris, France. Paintings for days at the Louvre - - - - #paris #france #museums #museum #louvre #art #paintings #oilpaintings ##InstaMuseum #museumsandstuff (at Musée du Louvre)

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Channel your unique radicalness at #radicalwomenbkm through July 22! Visit before the exhibition’s close and discover pioneering artistic practices by 123 Latina and Latin American women artists. On your next visit, be sure to share your pics using #mybkm. 

Photos by Melissa Saenz Gordon / @teapreciofoto, @crzylilprincess, @theutterlyindecent, @the_sunday_painter, @sadsirena​, @cnmone, @youmakemayde, @ohdereaaa, @petuniastomates and @heymeryl

#museum visitors #radical women #art history #latin america #brooklyn museum #art museum

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