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Good morning. 🌧️ Today, an app gives you the truth about 10 looted objects at the British Museum, artists are complaining that their images are being stolen by NFT scammers, and a review of the film Hyperallergic selected as the best of the year, Memoria.

Also, an article by the first recipient of the Emily H. Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators is up. Tahnee Ahtone talks about her unique position as a curator for the Kiowa nation.

— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief

What It Means to Curate for My Native American Community

Unlike other curators, my work involves collaborating with Native Sovereign nations, which brings up issues disregarded by US art institutions. | Tahnee Ahtone

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A new app highlights the history behind ten disputed objects in the British Museum’s collection and explains why they should be repatriated.

DeviantArt users say plagiarized NFTs are plaguing their community and denounce the inadequate responses from OpenSea and other marketplaces.

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Remembering a Congolese Photographer's Images of Post-Liberation Congo

In the 1970s and ’80s, Studio Pellosh, as it became known, in Pointe-Noire, Congo, was the place to be. | Marlaine Glicksman

A Strange Hallucination Plagues Tilda Swinton in Memoria

The newest feature from Thai director Apichatong Weerasethakul is a masterpiece of magical realism, and Hyperallergic’s #1 film of 2021. | Dan Schindel

The British Should Return Tipu’s Treasures to India

The UK government’s attempted export ban on Tipu Sultan’s treasures is a double travesty for objects it acquired through loot and plunder. | Anindya Sen

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