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** Smithsonian, Christo stole credit from top photographer | Lawsuit
The Smithsonian Institution and the artist Christo were sued by a New York
photographer who accused them of stealing credit for his photos of “Running
Fence,” a 1976 installation that remains one of Christo’s best-known works.
** Vatican, China Swap art in bid to Mend Strained Ties
Forty works from the Vatican will go on show in Beijing’s Forbidden City and
40 from China in the Vatican Museums in unprecedented simultaneous
exhibitions in March, art chiefs from both countries told a news conference.
** There’s More At Stake in the Berkshire Museum Sale Than 40 Artworks
Applied to the care and management of art, it is readily apparent why even
considering the removal of a work of cultural property implicates a museum
or a trustee’s fiduciary duty.
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** Dallas Museum of Art curator abruptly resigns over allegations of
'inappropriate behaviour'
A senior curator, who brought international esteem to the Dallas Museum of
Art for his role in the much lauded Jackson Pollock exhibition, abruptly
resigned, citing allegations against him.
** Ancient Buddha Statues Saved From Smugglers Then Dumped in the Trash By
Museum
The museum director claimed that the statues would not be affected by the
garbage or weather because of the material they were made of and would soon
be cleaned and installed indoors following a recent budget upgrade.
** Medieval treasure unearthed at the Abbey of Cluny
In mid-September, a large treasure was unearthed during a dig at the Abbey
of Cluny, in the French department of Saône-et-Loire: 2,200 silver deniers
and oboles, 21 Islamic gold dinars, a signet ring, and other objects made of
gold.
** Report calls for a more strategic approach to museum funding
Museums need to use existing funding better rather than expect significant
additional money, according to a long-awaited review of museums in England,
which was published recently.
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** How Analog and Digital Came Together in the 1990s Creation of the
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Distinguished by its smooth, asymmetrical curves, the lack of repetition in
the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao’s form is attributed to the use of pioneering
digital technology
** 10 things you might not have known about Rodin
Although Rodin had already studied the Parthenon sculptures from books,
plaster casts and some originals in the Louvre, his encounter with them in
the British Museum had a profound effect and influenced a number of his
works.
** Looking Back - The Rise of the University Museum
Ironically these museums are sheltered under the aegis of institutions
perceived as so exclusionary that they are collectively labelled the “ivory
tower,” a synecdoche that suggests an improbable wedding of spun-sugar
fantasy and contemptuous anti-intellectualism.
** Duchamp’s Last Work May Hold One Final Secret
The work was constructed entirely in secret over a period of some 20 years,
following Duchamp’s public announcement in 1923 that he was giving up
artmaking for competitive chess-playing.
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** Do civilisations collapse?
The idea of a collapse of Maya civilisation seems just wrong – and it
carries with it the wrong kind of implications – that the Maya all
disappeared or that their post-collapse culture is less important or less
worthy of our attention.
** What DNA Says About the Extinction of America’s Most Common Bird
Shapiro and her colleagues have found some new twists to the old answers by
collecting bits of skin from around 200 passenger pigeons, whose
century-old, taxidermied bodies sit in museums around the world.
** Flashback: That brazen Thanksgiving jewel heist at the Norton Museum
Both panache and politesse were evident in Palm Beach County’s biggest art
caper — the Nov. 23, 1965 theft from the Norton Museum of Art of priceless
Oriental jade objects, and a pile of antique jewellery that belonged to the
first wife of the museum’s late founder Ralph Norton.
** Early Victoria Cross given to museum
One of the earliest Victoria Crosses has been presented to the National Army
Museum in an acquisition curators have described as a once in a lifetime
donation.
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** Creator of Brazil’s Outdoor Museum Inhotim Sentenced to Prison
Bernardo Paz, the founder of Inhotim Institute, a renowned outdoor
contemporary art museum in central Brazil, was convicted of money laundering
and sentenced to nine years in prison.
** Mumbai museum challenges Indians' self-image
As narrow minded nationalist voices rise in India, a new exhibition
illustrates the depth and wealth of foreign influences on the nation's
culture.
** Mystery at the new Bible museum: Are its Dead Sea Scrolls fake?
Anybody who thinks that in a gigantic museum that there’s going to be no
item [with disputed authenticity], it’s like believing that there’s no
amoeba in your water, says university biblical scholar .
** Ancient data, modern math and the hunt for 11 lost cities of the Bronze
Age
Using numbers scrawled by Bronze Age merchants on 4,000-year-old clay
tablets, a historian and three economists have developed a novel way to
pinpoint the locations of lost cities of the ancient world.
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** The Cold War as a museum: One man's 100,000-piece collection finds a new
home
The Wende has been a research destination for scholars and history buffs who
visited by appointment, but it's flown under the radar of most museum goers.
** The UK Museums Association Has Published Updated Salary Guidelines For
Museums
The guidelines are intended as a practical resource for employers, employees
and funders in the museum sector
** Miles upon Miles: World Heritage along the Silk Road
Hong Kong Museum of History
** New Approaches to Managing Illegal Wildlife Trade
American Museum of Natural History
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