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Art historian Alice Procter is on a mission to decolonise museums and galleries in her ‘Uncomfortable Art Tours’
When you wander around a museum or a gallery, how deeply do you think about the legacy of historical artifacts and objects that are on display?
Do you think about how they were acquired?
- ABC Arts / By Hannah Reich for The Art Show
Or, how about how an object is displayed? How it is lit, or located, or labelled?
These are the kinds of questions that plague Alice Procter — a London-based Australia-raised art historian with a masters in anthropology, who curates exhibitions, makes podcasts and…
“The history of British art is also the history of empire and genocide, written by collectors who…