Dan Hicks

Dan Hicks is Professor of Contemporary Archaeology at the University of Oxford and Curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum. He is the author of The Brutish Museums (Pluto Press).

Can We Imagine Public Art Beyond ‘Toxic Monumentality’?

Dan Hicksartreview.com28 January 2022

Artists are reclaiming monument-making as a collective, rather than a ‘monohumanist’, project

Let’s Keep Colston Falling

Dan Hicksartreview.com16 June 2021

The statue of the slave trader is now on display in a museum, a year after it was pulled down by Black Lives Matter protesters

Why Colston Had to Fall

Dan Hicksartreview.com09 June 2020

‘Dialogue’ has stifled action for decades – ridding our cities of monuments to white supremacy is about dismantling systems of oppression