A UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Bialowieza Forest in the North-East of Poland has been the stage for extraordinary clashes of interests and ideologies which…
Should Big Oil Sponsor Cultural Institutions?
Earlier this year in February a performance protest was staged at the British Museum by the group BP or not BP?. It was a protest against…
Painting on Italy’s Colonial Past
During the International Women’s Day March on March 8 in Milan, Italy, a feminist group known as Non Una di Meno, Not a Minor, covered…
“Where are your gibes now?” Preserving Humanity in the Museum Vrolik
The Museum Vrolik is not a particularly easy place to find. It is tucked away within the Academic Medical Centre, which is itself quite far…
The Favourite – Reinventing the Historical-Film Genre?
Historical films come in all shapes and sizes, some much more blatantly disregarding of any form of historical accuracy. The Favourite and the other 5…
An Old Man’s Secret: Artefacts and Remains
The Midwestern state of Indiana has been in the national news in the past few days for something rather unexpected. In 2014, the FBI entered…
Intangible Cultural Heritage – the key to saving squatting culture?
Amsterdam’s fatal flaw Amsterdam, why are you cutting down the very branch on which you were sitting? Soon there will be no wild branches left…