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TEFAF Cancels Fair Rijksmuseum Examines Slavery Past Robot pAInts
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Gold, ivory and human beings: New Dutch exhibition takes unflinching look at slavery

Gold, ivory and human beings: New Dutch exhibition takes unflinching look at slavery Firstpost 4 hours ago The Associated Press © Provided by Firstpost Gold, ivory and human beings: New Dutch exhibition takes unflinching look at slavery Amsterdam: The delicacy of one of the first objects in a new exhibition at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum belies its brutality. At the end of a thin iron rod are the artistically interwoven letters GWC used to brand the initials of a Dutch trading company into the skin of enslaved workers. The stark contrast between finery and brutality, wealth and inhumanity is a recurring pattern at the museum’s unflinching exhibition titled, simply,

Slavery, Rijksmuseum, review: a brave reckoning with history – if far behind Britain

An anonymous painter s Enslaved Men Digging Trenches (c1850), part of Slavery at the Rijksmuseum Credit: Rijksmuseum Hanging from the ceiling at the Rijksmuseum, like a beautiful chandelier, are hundreds of sparkling blue glass beads. They’re thought to have been used as currency by people enslaved by the Dutch on the Caribbean island of Sint Eustatius. Local legend has it that the beads were thrown into the sea when, after a series of mass escapes, the slaves won their freedom. Today, when those same beads re-emerge from the waves, some see them as precious trophies. This deep-blue painted room is part of Slavery, an extraordinary new exhibition launched this week at the Rijksmuseum, which delves for the first time into this aspect of Dutch history. Through artefacts, church records, letters, paintings, maps, oral history and songs, it tells the stories of 10 people whose lives were involved in slavery – as slave holders, enslaved people and freedom fighters.

Unflinching look at a brutal past - Taipei Times

Unflinching look at a brutal past - Taipei Times
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New Dutch exhibition takes unflinching look at slavery

New Dutch exhibition takes unflinching look at slavery
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