{"id":4807,"date":"2022-02-19T07:39:15","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T06:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/19\/row-about-congolese-statue-loan-escalates-into-legal-battle-over-nfts\/"},"modified":"2022-02-19T07:39:15","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T06:39:15","slug":"row-about-congolese-statue-loan-escalates-into-legal-battle-over-nfts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/19\/row-about-congolese-statue-loan-escalates-into-legal-battle-over-nfts\/","title":{"rendered":"Row about Congolese statue loan escalates into legal battle over NFTs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gallery at site of uprising against colonial rule accuses US museum of stonewalling request for artefact<\/p>\n<p>A statue depicting the angry spirit of a Belgian officer beheaded during an uprising in Congo in 1931 is at the centre of a tug of war between a US museum and a Congolese gallery at the site of the rebellion.<\/p>\n<p>The statue of Maximilien Balot, a colonial administrator, has travelled to Europe but the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is accused of stonewalling requests for a loan to the White Cube gallery in Lusanga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2022\/feb\/19\/congolese-statue-loan-legal-battle-nfts-colonial-rule-us-museum\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/8bdec8d875b7fbd81756a9f5dee084d3bda00f2b\/0_187_558_334\/master\/558.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=91681fcb50f103820ed186858de52091\" title=\"Row about Congolese statue loan escalates into legal battle over NFTs\" \/>Gallery at site of uprising against colonial rule accuses US museum of stonewalling request for artefact<br \/>\nA statue depicting the angry spirit of a Belgian officer beheaded during an uprising in Congo in 1931 is at the centre of a tug of war between a US museum and a Congolese gallery at the site of the rebellion.<br \/>\nThe statue of Maximilien Balot, a colonial administrator, has travelled to Europe but the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is accused of stonewalling requests for a loan to the White Cube gallery in Lusanga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gallery at site of uprising against colonial rule accuses US museum of stonewalling request for artefact A statue depicting the angry spirit of a Belgian officer beheaded during an uprising in Congo in 1931 is at the centre of a tug of war between a US museum and a Congolese gallery at the site of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/19\/row-about-congolese-statue-loan-escalates-into-legal-battle-over-nfts\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Row about Congolese statue loan escalates into legal battle over NFTs<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4807"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}