Two museums in Paris, Musée Guimet and Musée du quai Branly, are under fire for renaming Tibetan exhibits as Chinese or from the “Himalayan world.” An estimated 800 demonstrators protested outside the museums at the weekend and Tibetan cultural advocacy groups based in France requested formal meetings to discuss the rationale behind the terminology changes. Here’s more from @ArtNews.

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