Joy Lo Dico Is sending art back to where it came from really such a great idea?

Western capitals — indeed, reconstructed baroque palaces — will always first convey an idea of comparative Western superiority.

Another way to balance this is for us to expose our own primitivism to others. Wouldn’t it be surprising to go to a museum in, say, Lagos and find that its image of Britain was conveyed not by our royal family, our art collections or our modernity but by displaying cases of our early carved wooden chairs and armour, our flints and earthenware pots?