Looted Colonial Art: A Controversy

Monthly thoughts on society, politics, culture and art. The other day I came across an extremely informative book by Pia Schönberger ‘Das Museum im kolonialen Kontext, Annäherungen aus Österreich’. The debates about restitution of and reparations for art and cult objects, looted during the colonial period, were further fueled by the opening of the Humboldt Forum in Berlin …