ArtCurious News This Week: August 12, 2022

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ArtCurious

Arts, History, Visual Arts

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🗓️ 12 August 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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This is ArtCurious News this Week, our new short-form Friday roundup of my favorite art history updates and interesting news tidbits. Today is August 12, 2022. This week’s stories: Horniman Museum & Gardens: Horniman to return ownership of Benin bronzes to Nigeria NBC News: Woman swindled elderly mother out of art worth $140M using ‘psychics’ who claimed it was cursed, police say ArtNews: Archaeologists Rebury ‘First-of-Its-Kind’ Ancient Roman Villa in England One Year After Its Discovery Getty Museum: Why Would We Rebury Ancient Sites? Please SUBSCRIBE and REVIEW our show on Apple Podcasts and FOLLOW on Spotify Instagram / Facebook / YouTube Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.1	Happy Friday listeners. It's Jennifer Art Curious host back at you this week with our short-form Friday
0:38.7	roundup of my favorite art history updates and interesting news tidbits.
0:43.8	This is Art Curious News this week, and this will get you up to date on some of what I feel
0:49.3	is the most interesting goings-on in the realm of art history.
0:53.3	All right, today is Friday, August 12th,
0:56.5	2022, and you might be tired of me chatting every week about artwork repatriation, but don't be
1:03.6	because this is good, good news. Right now, museums seem to be taking the lead from each other
1:10.1	more and more as pressure mounts for them to return cultural objects to their countries of origin around the world, with the objects known as the Benin bronzes acting as kind of poster objects for this rather serious issue.
1:23.9	I mentioned recently that several German and UK institutions have made headlines for their
1:28.8	announcements of deals brokering the return of these objects to Nigeria. And this week it was announced
1:34.5	that another small London-based museum, the Horneman Museum and Gardens, will be transferring
1:40.3	72 artifacts back to Nigeria. According to a press release on the Hornaman's website,
1:46.4	though only 12 brass plaques currently held by the Hornaman
1:49.5	are considered to be part of the so-called Benin bronzes,
1:53.1	the other objects are still considered to be vastly culturally valuable,
1:57.1	and they consist of such diverse pieces as brass bells, fans, baskets, ivory carvings,
2:03.4	altarpieces, and more. The process of this repatriation began back in January of this year
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