Why Colston Had to Fall

Title: Why Colston Had to Fall
Author: Dan Hicks
Media Outlet: Art Review
Publish Date: June 9, 2020

“#BlackLivesMatter movement is joining the dots between the unresolved antagonisms of an 1895 bronze statue of a slave trader and a bronze statue looted from West Africa in 1897. (…) As the parallel demands of the Fallism and Restitution movements grow, it is the duty of Britain’s arts and heritage sector to no longer care for and protect objects more than we care for and protect people. Yes, silence is complicity; but so is dialogue masking inaction.