Dutch museum row reopens uneasy debate about colonial legacy

Mauritshuis, home of Vermeer’s Girl With a Pearl Earring, removes bust of slave-trader founderA debate over the Netherlands’ colonial heritage burst into the open this week after one of the country’s leading museums came under fire for removing a bust of its founder from its lobby.The Mauritshuis in The Hague, home to national treasures including Vermeer’s Girl With a Pearl Earring and Carel Fabritius’s The Goldfinch, said the decision was part of a reorganisation o