Slavery
The Big Review: Slavery at the Rijksmuseum
Four years in the making, the exhibition has gained new urgency after the murder or George Floyd. How unflinchingly does it address its subject and its collection?
We tackled Dutch slaving history—the Rijksmuseum's exhibition could serve as a model of its kind
The Netherlands needs to collectively examine how its past has shaped today's society, says the director of the Amsterdam museum
Brooklyn’s long history of resistance is celebrated on Juneteenth
A series of installations and programmes draw on the Center for Brooklyn History's extensive archive
Slavery: the groundbreaking Dutch exhibition confronting colonial history
Plus, Leonora Carrington's Surrealist children's book behind the next Venice Biennale and Rubens's landscapes reunited after 200 years
'Geffrye must fall': Labour MP Diane Abbott leads protests demanding slaver statue be removed from London museum
Former UK shadow home secretary led protests at the Museum of the Home in Hoxton, which reopened to the public at the weekend
Oxford professors refuse to teach undergraduate students if Cecil Rhodes statue stays in place
Oriel College said it had no plans to “begin the legal process for relocation” of the monument
Robert E. Lee’s former Virginia mansion reopens to the public with an enlightening focus on the enslaved
Arlington House, where wealthy white privilege contrasts with bondage and suffering, has undergone a $12.3m rehabilitation and reinterpretation
‘Colonial history is international history’: Rijksmuseum reflects on slavery’s legacy in new show
The exhibition will offer new insights into the experiences of slaves as well as the role of Dutch trading companies
France's planned slavery memorial on hold over debate about naming 200,000 freed slaves
Shortlisted proposals by artists including Adrian Piper, Julien Creuzet and duo Sammy Baloji and Emeka Ogboh did not adequately adhere to the requirements, campaign group says
Marc Quinn’s BLM protestor statue could be reinstalled on Bristol plinth that held slave trader monument
Sculpture of Edward Colston was pulled down by activists last summer and will now be placed in a museum
UK culture war: how should museums confront colonialism?
Plus, craft and American identity and critic Michael Peppiatt on Frank Auerbach
National Trust's report on colonial and slavery history did not breach charity law, regulator says
Research commissioned by the trust provoked complaints from Conservative politicians amid UK culture war around controversial monuments
'Proud to be colonised?': statue of French politician torn down in Martinique
Demands are growing on the Caribbean island to address the impact of its history of slavery
City of London to remove statues of politicians with slavery links
The decision to take down historic William Beckford and John Cass sculptures could go against new UK government policy
Links to the slave trade found in more than 200 works belonging to UK Parliament, survey says
Review of state art collection is part of move to make it “more representative of diversity”
Major slavery exhibition heads to MFA Houston and the National Gallery of Art in Washington
Afro-Atlantic Histories, which opened in São Paulo in 2018, tells the story of the transatlantic slave trade and its legacies
Menokin preservation project offers a literal window onto layers of Virginia history
Structural glass replaces missing walls and floors of a 1769 house, exposing indelible links to slavery
The Huntington Library acquires two collections of US slavery and abolition records
The historic documents “highlight the complexities of documenting America’s ‘peculiar institution’”
Rio de Janeiro's slave wharf museum gains ground
The Unesco-listed site is due to receive a museum of Afro-Brazilian culture