David Lee
March/April 2020
The Arts Council is offering a contract worth £42,000 for an expert to draw up guidelines on how museums must deal with what it calls ‘decolonisation’. Naturally, conclusions reached will be expected to reinforce the Council’s existing prejudices: it supports repatriation where possible, and exhibition contexts, especially captions, must report the serial crimes of colonialism with an emphasis on any potentially dubious means by which objects may have been acquired – the concerned Liberal mentality of metropolitan State Art, you understand,