Ilê Sartuzi put original coin in museum donation box as part of project about number of foreign objects in its collectionAn artist took a historical coin from its display case in the British Museum and deposited it in a donation box in the museum’s lobby as part of an art project – less than a year after hundreds of items were found to have gone missing from the museum.Last month, the Brazilian conceptual artist Ilê Sartuzi swapped an English civil war coin for a fake as part of a project highlighting the large number of foreign objects the British Museum holds. Continue reading...
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