Emma Cieslik

Emma Cieslik is a collections contractor at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American India

Trump’s Greenland threats become playable arcade game in satiric collective’s latest public art intervention

The collective Secret Handshake has installed playable arcade rigs featuring its game “Operation Epic Furious: Nuuk ‘Em All” in Washington, DC, and Nuuk, Greenland

Hundreds gather at Kennedy Center to protest Trump’s attacks

More than 1,000 attendees formed a human chain around the Washington, DC, performing arts centre that Trump has taken over, sought to rebrand and threatened to shutter and demolish

Restitutionanalysis

Digital shadows: what happens to an artefact's data after it is restituted?

Museums are stepping up efforts to return physical objects to their original owners—but repatriation policies often do not consider the digital information associated with them