Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution

Description: The Brutish Museums sits at the heart of a heated debate about cultural restitution, repatriation, and the decolonization of museums. Since its first publication, museums across the western world have begun to return their Bronzes to Nigeria, heralding a new era in the way we understand the objects of empire we once took for granted.

Review Quotes: 'A real game-changer'
The Economist

'If you care about museums and the world, read this book'
New York Times 'Best Art Books' 2020

'Hicks's urgent, lucid, and brilliantly enraged book feels like a long-awaited treatise on justice'
Coco Fusco, New York Review of Books