New Documentary Marks a Milestone Within the Repatriation Debate

When she brought the sounds of Sing Sing to the Whitney Museum’s airy fifth floor in 2016, Andrea Fraser said she did so because prisons and art institutions are “two sides of the same coin of inequality.” If that statement seemed provocative eight years ago, it appears only mildly controversial now, at a time when museums are commonly seen as appendages of racist, colonialist, and deeply unfair systems.And that may explain why, in the wonderful, knotty new documentary Dahomey,