50 Things Turning 100 in 2021
By Nicole Johnson, Stacker News
On 2/16/21 at 8:00 PM EST
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One hundred years is a very long time. When it is broken down, it is approximately 36,500 days (depending on leap years, of course), or 1,200 months, or 10 decades, or one century. To last for such a long period is a remarkable achievement that takes stamina, wit, flexibility, and resilience. It is also a feat worth mentioning, which is why we have come up with a list to celebrate those people and things hitting such a momentous milestone.
To create a list of 50 things turning 100 in 2021, Stacker looked at primary documents in historical records, pop charts, newspaper articles, and other matters of public record. This list includes animate and inanimate objects. You will find people, places, and things. It includes movies, poetry, companies, famous artwork, and scientific discoveries and even a few birthdays.
The Netherlands has long been recognised as a leader in the effort to return art looted by the Nazis to its rightful owners. Now it is officially joining the move to create greater sensitivity to the rights of people whose material legacies have been stripped from them as part of the history of colonial conquests. The Dutch government has confirmed that it will adopt guidelines issued by a commission in ‘recognition that an injustice was done to the local populations of former colonial territories when cultural objects were taken against their will’.
Across the world, that move has been gaining ground for some decades. Even before American Indian activists successfully blocked the 1984 exhibition of a Zuni war god at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, efforts were underway in both the United States and Canada to build better respect for the perspectives of the non-Western peoples whose cultural artefacts had entered museum storerooms. The trend soon spread across the Atlantic, t
LONDON: At first glance, the description of a new exhibition and accompanying book celebrating a decade of the British Museum collecting contemporary art of the Middle East and North Africa appears unnecessarily cumbersome, if not evasive.
The exhibition “Reflections: Contemporary art of the Middle East and North Africa,” writes Venetia Porter, the museum’s curator of Islamic and contemporary Middle East art, is “about a collection of works in the British Museum … made by artists born in or connected to countries that include Iran, Turkey, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Tunisia, states that belong within the region known today as the Middle East and North Africa.”