Quinn and Betty are two non-professional art enthusiasts who love art and want to learn more about it. They took turns researching interesting parts of art history and culture, and sharing those stories with each other. Hosted by Betty Chen and Quinn Rose.
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episode 15: Looting & The British Museum
Powerful art museums are full of art and artifacts stolen from all over the world. Betty and Quinn examine some of the most famous stolen pieces of art that reside in the British Museum, looking at how they were looted and why the British Museum continues to hold them despite calls for repatriation.
Links and Show Notes: Support Pictorial with a Relay FM Membership Looted art - Wikipedia The Monuments Men - Wikipedia British Museum is world's largest receiver of stolen goods, says QC - The Guardian Art Historian Identifies Ten Nazi-Looted Paintings in the Louvre's Collections - Smithsonian Magazine The British Museum’s ‘Looting’ Problem - The New Republic Will the British Museum Ever Return These Stolen Artifacts? - History 9 Priceless Artifacts Museums Should Return to Their Home Countries - Mic The art world’s shame: why Britain must give its colonial booty back - The Guardian Ai Weiwei - Circle of Animals / Zodiac Heads Iraqi Artifacts Once Bought by Hobby Lobby Will Return Home - The New York Times