Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye on Tuesday sacked a government minister who recently described African soldiers who fought for colonial ruler France as "traitors". Cheikh Oumar Diagne ...
Two connected museums focus on American folk art and 18th-century decorative ... There also are reenactors spread around Colonial Williamsburg, dressed in period costumes and talking to visitors ...
Then, they cleaned the colonial-era paintings with cotton swabs, and retouched the images where necessary. “They all have their own character—they’re not copies,” Pocobene said of the angels.
Big money, big ideas and big egos — the art world has all the necessary ingredients ... But that was well over a decade ago, during a relatively liberal era for artistic expression.