The Collection

by Eric Pfeffinger

TEN-MINUTE: There's nothing more relaxing than spending an afternoon at the museum looking at historical artifacts. Or looted plunder. Tomayto, tomahto.

TEN-MINUTE: There's nothing more relaxing than spending an afternoon at the museum looking at historical artifacts. Or looted plunder. Tomayto, tomahto.

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The Collection

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  • James McLindon: The Collection by Eric Pfeffinger
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    Funny and then funnier and even funnier, this piece manages also to comment on the questionable morals of Western museums with a power that sneaks up on you. By bringing such institutions' plundering ways out of the distant past and into the present, it manages to drive home a serious point about the damage being done and the pain inflicted. (And the docent's euphemistic descriptions of the cultural appropriations described is alone worth the price of admission

    Funny and then funnier and even funnier, this piece manages also to comment on the questionable morals of Western museums with a power that sneaks up on you. By bringing such institutions' plundering ways out of the distant past and into the present, it manages to drive home a serious point about the damage being done and the pain inflicted. (And the docent's euphemistic descriptions of the cultural appropriations described is alone worth the price of admission

    ”

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