Whose “Universal Museum”? Comments on James Cuno’s “Whose Culture”?
Article by Kwame Opoku as comment to James Cuno’s “Whose Culture”? The editor of Whose Culture?, he writes, “has an astonishing way of presenting statements that are wrong or only partially correct as if they described the obvious plain truth that everybody would accept without hesitation. He describes antiquities as “the ancient artifacts of peoples long disappeared” and goes on to illustrate his ideas with six objects, two of them from Benin, Edo. (Nigeria). With all due respect to James Cuno, the Benin people are still alive and have by no means disappeared. He should know this.” [Full Text Article, pdf]