#repatriation

#repatriation

Brian Ferriso, director of the Portland Art Museum since 2006, is resigning to become director of the Dallas Museum of Art in Texas. Oregon Public Broadcasting broke the story Friday morning, Aug. 20, citing a press release from the Dallas museum. Ferriso, who has spent the past several years guiding the Portland museum's massive, $111 million redesign and addition, will leave after the unveiling of the completed project on Nov. 20, and will take the reins in Dallas on Dec. 1, 2025.

Grieving British families of the Air India crash victims have received the wrong bodies to bury in a bungled repatriation scheme. A lawyer acting for the bereaved said that the remains of several victims had been wrongly identified, with one family forced to abandon funeral plans after allegedly being told the coffin contained a different, unidentified body.

Tributes have been paid to two British friends, King Edonmi and Mo Liasu, who tragically lost their lives in a hotel swimming pool in Portugal.

Higuera, 51, faced an ultimatum: Stay in the US and risk detention or voluntarily say goodbye to her family. "I was really sad that I was leaving my family behind," she said.

The six individuals were repatriated across the rivals' sea border on Wednesday morning. Two were rescued in the West Sea in March, while four were found in the East Sea in late May.

When he landed, a group of artists were waiting, eager to view first-hand an object they had only seen in books, online and in a museum.

Mivekannin's work highlights the colonialist practices and ethical dilemmas tied to ethnographic museums, calling for a reconsideration of their presents and pasts.

Sandy Bellou recalled her mother's sorrow over her brother's fate, who went missing after a plane crash in WWII, leaving the family without closure.