Museums grapple with ethical questions on displaying human remains. Exhibits explore colonial acquisitions, provenance research, and repatriation. Galleries consider respectful spaces for remains and ancestor rituals.
For a recent show about China’s Bronze Age, the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco invited a group of Bay Area content creators who specialise in textile and costume design for a private tour with the exhibition’s curator.
The Brighton pavilion has been a conservation nightmare ever since the early 19th century, when the architect John Nash completed the transformation of a relatively modest classical mansion into a fantasy Oriental palace for the wildly extravagant Prince Regent, the future George IV.
