The Margaret Herz Demant African Art Award Honoring Dr. Kwame Tua Opoku
Location:
Virtual
A virtual conversation with Dr. Kwame Tua Opoku (on YouTube)
African Art in Western Museums: Making the Case for Object Repatriations
After decades of refusal to restitute looted African artifacts, Western museums and governments started in 2022 to return objects to the African States following a historic declaration by French President Emmanuel Macron in 2017. The Friends of African and African American Art of the Detroit Institute of Arts’ 2023 nominee for the Margaret Herz Demant African Art Award, Dr. Kwame Tua Opoku (pictured), is a retired United Nations Legal Advisor and a recognized voice in African repatriations.
In a live virtual conversation with Dr. Nii Quarcoopome, Curator of African Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Dr. Opoku will discuss his vast experience with restitutions and the nuances and challenges confronting the debate. Also, he will address, among other topics, the merits and demerits of the partial repatriation of African cultural patrimony, when necessary, as part of the broader dialogue about decolonizing Western museums.
A virtual conversation with Dr. Kwame Tua Opoku (on YouTube)
African Art in Western Museums: Making the Case for Object Repatriations
After decades of refusal to restitute looted African artifacts, Western museums and governments started in 2022 to return objects to the African States following a historic declaration by French President Emmanuel Macron in 2017. The Friends of African and African American Art of the Detroit Institute of Arts’ 2023 nominee for the Margaret Herz Demant African Art Award, Dr. Kwame Tua Opoku (pictured), is a retired United Nations Legal Advisor and a recognized voice in African repatriations.
In a live virtual conversation with Dr. Nii Quarcoopome, Curator of African Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Dr. Opoku will discuss his vast experience with restitutions and the nuances and challenges confronting the debate. Also, he will address, among other topics, the merits and demerits of the partial repatriation of African cultural patrimony, when necessary, as part of the broader dialogue about decolonizing Western museums.