The Brutish Museums by Dan Hicks review – return everything

Charlotte Lydia Riley, The Brutish Museums by Dan Hicks review – return everything, The Guardian, Nov. 6, 2020.

“Museums are entertaining. They are educational. They are civic institutions. They are the sites of school trips, first dates, rainy days on holidays. Museums are safe, and worthy, and a little boring. Right? Dan Hicks sees it differently. In his beautifully written, carefully argued book, museums house unending violence, ceaseless trauma, colonial crimes committed again every morning as the strip lights click on. Museums are battlegrounds.”