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Should museums be made to give back their marbles? Is it even possible to 'decolonize' our galleries? Must Rhodes fall? How to deal with the colonial history of art in museums and monuments in the public realm is a thorny issue that we are only just beginning to address. Alice Procter, creator of the Uncomfortable Art Tours, provides a manual for deconstructing everything you thought you knew about art history and tells the stories that have been...
102) Flyover country
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Renegade small-town cop Franz Kafka aka 'K' is caught in the merciless clash between Old and New West.
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Selling Russia's Treasures documents one of the great cultural dramas of the twentieth century: the sale, by a cash-hungry Soviet government, of the artistic treasures accumulated by the Russian aristocracy over the centuries and nationalized after the October 1917 revolution. An astonishing variety of objects, from icons and illuminated manuscripts to Fabergé eggs and Old Master paintings, entered the collections of wealthy Westerners like Andrew...
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As Hitler prepared to invade Poland during the sweltering summer of 1939, men and women from across London's museums, galleries and archives formulated ingenious plans to send the nation's highest prized objects to safety. Using stately homes, tube tunnels, slate mines, castles, prisons, stone quarries and even their own homes, a dedicated bunch of unlikely misfits packed up the nation's greatest treasures and, in a race against time, dispatched them...
113) Todo mal
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Diplomat Fernando loses it when his fiancée confesses on social media that she has cheated on him. He decides to steal the headress plumes of Montezuma, an artifact that he had negotiated to bring back to Mexico. His cousins, one a former pop star and one graduate student who has never finished his dissertation, will fight to save Fernando from his troubles.
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La historia comienza en Tombuctú en la década de los ochenta, cuando el librero, historiador y bibliotecario Abdel Kader Haidara recibe el encargo de buscar y rescatar decenas de miles de manuscritos antiguos que han caído en el olvido. La maravillosa tarea emprendida por nuestro joven protagonista se ve seriamente amenazada cuando, en 2012, miles de militantes de Al Qaeda toman el control de la mayor parte de Mali. Tras la ocupación se impone...
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"Famous for its majestic ruins, Mexico has gone to great lengths to preserve and display the remains of its pre-Hispanic past. The Pursuit of Ruins argues that the government effort to take control of the ancient remains took off in the late nineteenth century during the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz. Under Díaz Mexico acquired an official history more firmly rooted in Indian antiquity. This prestigious pedigree served to counter Mexico's image...
116) The monuments men
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At the same time that Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treasures in Europe. The Führer had begun cataloging the art he planned to collect as well as the art he would destroy: the "degenerate" works he despised. In a race against time, a group of American and British museum directors, curators, art historians, and others, called the Monuments Men, risked their...
117) Hitler's holy relics
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Here, an American art historian turned Army sleuth races to stay one step ahead of Nazi thugs who have absconded with the sacred Crown Jewels of the Holy Roman Empire and their plot to create a Fourth Reich.
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At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treasures in Europe. The Fuehrer had begun cataloguing the art he planned to collect as well as the art he would destroy: "degenerate" works he despised. In a race against time, behind enemy lines, often unarmed, a special force of American and British museum directors, curators, art historians, and others,...
119) M.F.A.A: the history of the monuments , fine arts, and archives program (also known as Monument Men)
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