The Brutish Museums by Dan Hicks is a necrography wherein each stolen item from Benin City is an ongoing event: each event a story of colonial violence told and retold through daily viewings by tourists and school children. A story told over and over again by countless curators across the globe. Can curators find a way so that these stories, these events, these artifacts cease their work toward annihilation of culture?
It is also a “calling in” for museum curators to work toward a future of restitution; a future of museums free of stolen objects, cultures, and histories.
Host Aubrey Hicks is joined by Jen Bravo, David Sloane, and Donnajean Ward.