The Brutish Museums digital culture These photographs are a show-and-tell

These photographs are a show-and-tell social commentary on life in a place known more for its wealthy visitors than its inhabitants

Architect Rem Koolhaas and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist compile a history of Metabolism: the first non-Western avant-garde architecture

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the Martin-Elsaesser-Foundation

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The Brutish Museums digital culture These photographs are a show-and-tellWalk into any Western museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind plate glass: dignified, tastefully lit. Accompanying pieces of card offer a name, date and place of origin. They do not mention that the objects are all stolen. Few artefacts embody this history of rapacious and extractive colonialism better than the more Benin Bronzes a collection of thousands of metal plaques and sculptures depicting the history of the