art culutre project (audio)

The speaker discusses the issue of looted art and its impact on other cultures. Looting involves stealing art, often during violent events like World War II. This results in stealing history and cultural artifacts from other cultures. The speaker suggests staying involved, learning about the art, and making noise if a piece in a museum has been acquired through looting. They emphasize the importance of researching the piece's original location and acknowledge that resolving this issue will take time but can lead to change. Greetings, my name is Sir Brushworth the Third, and today I wish to explain a few things about the wonderful world of art, which may just be deeper than globs of paint. That's right, today we'll be talking about cultures and art, but to be more precise, we'll be talking about the troublesome topic of cultures and looted art. To begin, what is looted art? Well, when you think of the word looted, you probably think of pirates, which does put us on the right track, but there will be no pirates on this little adventure. But the idea of looting does remain similar. Looting tends to entail that something has been stolen, but usually during a violent event, you can think such things as World War II, for example. But in all of these situations, we run into the issue of other cultures being stolen from. Which to best describe the annoyance that this brings, we can think of a pie, you can think of any other pie, but in this case I'm going to use a monochrome pie. Don't ask about the flavour. Think about this pie being the art that another culture has made. For places like museums, an artist from another culture may bring a piece to a museum. In this case, they are sharing the pie with everyone, but let's now think about it when looting is involved with pieces. So in this case, let's think a possum has broken in and has stolen the monochrome pie, all while accidentally dragging along the family's secret recipe. So in a sense, without being stolen, you are also stealing history from other cultures. Overall, this problem may not be humongous to the point where it's DEFCON 1, but it's still a large enough issue that it's annoying for many cultures. So, my solution, although small, is stay involved. Learn about the art you see around, and if you learn a piece has been placed in a museum from looting, then make some noise. Metaphorically, of course, because one of the best ways for a piece to be returned, or hopefully start some movement, is to make known that it's not alright. However, I will say, don't just do your research on the art. Do your research on the piece's original location. Because sometimes this issue can boil down to a bunch of legal annoyance and pieces being moved around. Overall, this issue is something that won't just be fixed in a day. But by making some noise, some change can happen, and it may just help things get moving.