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Elizabeth Merritt

How Germany Changed Its Mind, and Gave Benin Bronzes Back to Nigeria - The New York Times - 2 views

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  • by a changing social consensus about the ethics of holding on to such items, and further strengthened by a backlash against Germany’s flagship cultural project: the Humboldt Forum,
  • Germany’s approach also contrasts with those of the United States and British governments, which have left decisions up to individual institutions
  • some of the most important museums in England cannot return their Benin Bronzes, even if they wanted to, without a change in the law. That includes the British Museum, which owns about 900 of the artifacts, arguably the world’s finest collection.
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  • a key turning point there occurred in 2019, amid growing public pressure.
  • a rising awareness in Germany of its own colonial crimes — including the killing of tens of thousands of Nama and Herero people in what is now Namibia. The atrocity, carried out between 1904 and 1908, is widely seen as the first genocide of the 20th century.
  • Until then, the main vehicle for discussing the return of the Benin Bronzes had been the Benin Dialogue Group, a network founded in 2010 that brought together Nigerian representatives and figures from European museums with bronzes in their collections. The group, however, favored loans over transfers of ownership.
  • The agreement stipulated that all objects that had been obtained “unethically” would be liable for return and directed institutions to facilitate claims by producing publicly available inventories.
  • obstacles remained on the Nigerian side. Although the country had requested the return of the bronzes since the 1970s, there was conflict over who would take ownership of the artifacts. Both the Nigerian government and the oba of Benin, whose family ruled the historical Kingdom of Benin from which they were looted, claimed that they owned the items. Godwin Obaseki, the governor of Edo State, where Benin City is, said he acted as a facilitator to resolve the dispute.
  • Ultimately, he said, the oba’s family, Nigeria’s museum commission and the government of Edo State agreed to join a trust together, with independent directors that oversee the construction and operation of the new museum.
  • the agreement allows for 168 pieces chosen by Nigeria’s museum commission to remain in Germany “so that Benin’s art can be shown to the world.” The approximately 350 other bronzes that were part of the Berlin museum collections will be transported to Nigeria once the pavilion is completed.
  • Edo Museum of West African Art
  • It remains unclear who will pay for the shipment and insurance of the remaining items in Germany, and he noted that the bronzes’ storage and upkeep will come at a considerable cost, including electrical bills for climate control.
  • Elizabeth Merritt on 21 Dec 22
     
    The foreign minister's trip is the culmination of a yearslong process that upended Germany's approach to handling cultural items unjustly obtained during the colonial period. It is also part of a pioneering model for large-scale restitution, in which ownership is swapped before any artifacts change hands. Crucially, that approach allows for items to be restituted even if the country of origin does not yet have the facilities to store and exhibit them.
Elizabeth Merritt

ESG: How boards and CEOs can play offense instead of defense - 0 views

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ESG culture wars culture war 2.0 partisan divide

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Elizabeth Merritt

Why U.S. Population Growth Is in the Danger Zone - The Atlantic - 1 views

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  • Elizabeth Merritt on 29 Mar 22
     
    The implications of permanently slumped population growth are wide-ranging. Shrinking populations produce stagnant economies. Stagnant economies create wonky cultural knock-on effects, like a zero-sum mentality that ironically makes it harder to pursue pro-growth policies.
Elizabeth Merritt

Want to Appeal to Gen Z? Lose the 'Cult of Curator' Mindset - Museum-iD - 0 views

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Gen Z

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  • Elizabeth Merritt on 10 Jan 22
     
    Museums have always held a special place in the American cultural zeitgeist. Whether it's movies ranging from Indiana Jones to "Night
Elizabeth Merritt

How Community Design Advocates Can Be a Force for Design Justice - 0 views

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  • Currently, Colloqate is working with community design advocates on Midland Library in Portland and restorative justice space in Dallas.
  • The project in Dallas, which deals with a former jail, allows us to think about restorative justice through the lens of those who have been most harmed by that space. We were able to hire CDAs that were formerly incarcerated and hire others who were part of the broader network of the city and they were working together to ask questions of their own specific communities,
  • Design as Protest (DAP) began as a yearlong organizing effort, involving 250 design professionals and design advocates across the United States and Canada. They examined how injustice can be challenged through the built environment. Issues such as ending the prison industrial complex, defunding and reallocating the police, and advocating against architecture projects that are hostile to communities of color.
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  • The Black Panthers talked about removing capitalist intentions within communities which are the standard tropes around what gentrification is and what it means for capital to come into a neighborhood and wash away cultural institutions. The ethos of design justice is simply that for every injustice in this world there is an architecture, a plan, a design, that’s been built to sustain that injustice, and for so much of our work power is vested in land.”
  • Elizabeth Merritt on 10 Jan 22
     
    Community Design Associates are not only asked to talk about design, but also about their own experiences and the nuances that get missed in public consultations where the project is set and residents can only ask questions or give opinions.
Elizabeth Merritt

Across cultural lines, home schooling has boomed since COVID-19 hit - Virginia Mercury - 0 views

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homeschooling homeschool cooperatives

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  • Elizabeth Merritt on 03 Jan 22
     
    African Americans represent the fastest-growing home-schooling demographic nationwide, and Black and Hispanic families have been more likely than Whites to home-school their children during the pandemic, according to a 2020 survey by the U.S. Census Bureau.
rahulsinghseo

Cell Culture Tubes, Glass Culture Tubes With Caps - 0 views

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Cell Culture Tubes Glass Culture Tubes With Caps

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  • rahulsinghseo on 22 Dec 18
     
    Axiva Sichem Biotech is a reputed and top supplier of cell culture tubes and glass culture tubes with caps. We offer premium quality culture tubes that are produced from borosilicate glass to supply excellent chemical resistance and toughness.
Rahul Sharma

Glass Fiber Filters for Air Monitoring, Borosilicate Glass Fiber Filters - 0 views

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Glass Fiber Filters for Air Monitoring Borosilicate Glass Fiber Filters

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    Buy best quality glass fiber filters and borosilicate glass fiber filters at competitive price. These filters are use for air monitoring, moisture testing, including filtration of water, algae and bacteria cultures.
Elizabeth Merritt

The great tax escape that is America's nonprofit sector | FT Alphaville - 2 views

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      Elizabeth Merritt on 14 May 18
       
      Philip Hackney, @EOTaxProf, notes "same orgs were exempt back in 1862 when first income tax was enacted"
  • it turns out that the way the wealthy decide how to distribute cash is often even less fair than the way the state decides how to spend it.
  • More than half of the highly conspicuous donations of the ultra-rich were injected directly into the endowments of their already rich alma maters. Much of the rest was given to hushed museums in the form of very expensive donated art, or to other places that rich old people tend to congregate, like cultural arts centers and high-end hospitals. In other words, the funds the rich were giving went largely to institutions that tended to the needs and prerogatives of the rich and privileged.
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  • DAFs were being used to sidestep rules that require foundations to make annual donations to charities.
rahulsinghseo

Tissue Culture Plasticware, Axenta Box Transparent - Axiva Sichem Biotech - 0 views

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Tissue Culture Plasticware Axenta Box Transparent

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  • rahulsinghseo on 24 Mar 18
     
    Axiva Sichem Biotech is noteworthy supplier of tissue culture plasticware and axenta box transparent. We can provide these tissue culture bottles in different specifications with competitive prices.
Ruth Cuadra

Newfields Director Charles Venable on His Data-Driven (and Maybe Crazy) Quest to Save the Art Museum - 2 views

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  • Ruth Cuadra on 13 Feb 18
     
    In an era of greater entertainment opportunities with on-demand availability, people had begun chiefly seeking out cultural experiences that are defined by "fun." Museums, as traditionally construed, had become boring. Venable embraced this as gospel, and rethought the IMA from ground up.
Maharashtra Culture

Maharashtra Culture - Maharashtra Culture story - 0 views

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