Prestigious museum The Hunterian appoints a ‘curator of discomfort’ to address how its collections helped sustain a legacy of ‘white supremacy’ Museum said ideologies had been ‘used to justify looting and plundering’ Zandra Yeaman to work with staff in the way exhibits are promoted to the public Professor Jeremy Black warned against using today’s morals … Read more
Tate Modern bosses suspend curator for slamming their decision to postpone show featuring Ku Klux Klan paintings as ‘extremely patronising to viewers’ The Tate Modern will delay show of Philip Guston’s work for four years Guston’s work features Ku Klux Klan figures and comments on racial justice Curator Mark Godfrey was suspended from gallery for criticising … Read more
An Oxford-educated museum curator who sparked outrage after tweeting a guide about vandalising statues has left her job after an independent review. American-born Madeline Odent posted messages to her 5,000 Twitter followers in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement explaining how they could use household goods to permanently damage monuments. A police probe … Read more
A museum curator who sparked outrage after tweeting a guide about vandalising statues has been ‘forced out of her job’ after an independent review. American-born Madeline Odent posted messages to her 5,000 Twitter followers in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement explaining how they could use household goods to permanently damage monuments. A … Read more
Toppled? Museum curator who sparked outrage after tweeting a guide about vandalising ‘racist’ statues using household items has left her job Museum curator Madeline Odent posted guide about vandalising ‘racist’ statues Her comments led to calls for her to be sacked from her taxpayer-funded job Royston Town Council has refused to say if Ms Odent … Read more
The curator of parliament’s art collection said that artefacts in Westminster are being reevaluated, as many statues and paintings have a ‘racist history’ and were bought with wealth from the slave trade. The Palace of Westminster lobbies, which are open to the public, are lined with artwork featuring 18th and 19th Century politicians, many of … Read more
An Oxford-educated museum curator who tweeted a guide on how to chemically destroy bronze statues has been told by police to delete the posts but continues to ignore the instruction. Madeline Odent, the privately schooled curator of Royston Museum in Hertfordshire, sent an inflammatory series of tweets to her 5,164 followers, ending with an explicit … Read more
Police arrived at the home of Oxford-educated Madeline Odent this evening after she tweeted a guide on how to destroy bronze statues in the wake of recent Black Lives Matters protests. Museum curator Madeline Odent wrote a series of tweets last night on how to destroy bronze statues such as the one of Edward Colston … Read more
An Oxford-educated museum curator is being investigated by police after she tweeted expert advice on how to dissolve bronze statues using corrosive chemicals in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests. Privately schooled Madeline Odent, curator of Royston Museum in Hertfordshire, sent a series of tweets last night to her 5,164 followers, which were … Read more
An Oxford-educated museum curator has provoked outrage by sharing expert advice on how to dissolve bronze statues using corrosive chemicals in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests. Madeline Odent, curator of Royston Museum in Hertfordshire, sent a series of tweets last night to her 5,164 followers, which were then shared thousands of times. … Read more