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4 Jun 2025 Conversations with Tyler John Arnold on Trading, Energy, and Evidence-Based Philanthropy
“Academics and museums have been struggling with many of these questions about where do you draw the line on cultural appropriation, and when do you start giving back objects because that’s a slippery slope for many cultures across many time periods.”
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- 4 Jun 2025
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…You give them back, you’re not sure they’ll be treated well, right? Correct. Also, theft of cultural objects has been happening forever. I think there’s the question of how exactly did the theft occur? How important were those objects to the culture? In the case of these Benin bronzes, I’ve never acquired one because I’ve never been comfortable with that story. I think there’s a spectrum here, and there’s a lot of gray area in the art markets and art. Academics and museums have been struggling with many of these questions about where do you draw the line on cultural appropriation, and when do you start giving back objects because that’s a slippery slope for many cultures across many time periods. The Mona Lisa, you’d have to return, right?…
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