MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
Modest exhibition interrogates unsavoury past as V&A offers a ‘mea culpa’
(L to R) Gold pendant; a brass weight is in the form of an antelope with extended horns; brass shield; a pectoral gold disc, akrafokonmu
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New releases from Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, Odette Michell, Clementine Lovell
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a very readable account of Britain’s involvement in South America
Strip cartoons used to be the bread and butter of newspapers and they have been around for centuries. MICHAL BONCZA asks our own Paul Tanner about which bees are in his bonnet
GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators
ASANTE GOLDWEIGHTS
Victoria and Albert (V&A), London
IN THE Metalware Gallery (Room 116) at the V&A a humble display of Asante Goldweights has acquired a significance far beyond the modest number of the items on display.
“It reflects the developing discussions in museums around decolonisation and the need for us to be open about the V&A’s history as both an expression and a driver of 19th-century imperialism,” writes V&A senior curator Angus Patterson in a companion piece.
This honesty needs to saluted as it marks a significant step in a process that would hopefully lead to a significant restitution of art treasures hoarded in British museums which are, more often than not, of great social, cultural and political significance to their original creators.
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