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Month: April 2024

Issam Kourbaj's "Urgent Archive" Exhibition Review

Issam Kourbaj’s “Urgent Archive”: Exhibition Review

Giorgia Maffioli Brigatti

The latest Kettle’s Yard exhibition is a real-time battle to preserve Syrian history from oblivion, but does it stick in the viewer’s memory?

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Local Hero, Global Antihero? Captain Cook's Legacy in North Yorkshire

Captain Cook: Yorkshire Hero, Global Antihero

Lucy Haddock-Williams

Venture beyond York to understand the legacy of one of North Yorkshire’s most famous sons, Captain James Cook

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Overcoming Fake History: the Zimbabwe Bird and Rhodes’ Legacy in Modern Zimbabwe

#Fake: The Zimbabwe Bird and Cecil Rhodes’ Legacy

Oscar Lozada

Cecil Rhodes’ false history of an iconic artefact, and the real story of how contemporary Zimbabweans view his legacy.

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