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** Billionaires have franchised the modern art museum
By the time the daylight has been filtered, security systems to guard the
precious stock installed, and costly climate control systems fitted, they
are expensively and immaculately bland.
** From The Blogs - Bardo Museum-Must-See
The Bardo is the second largest museum in Africa after the Egyptian Museum
and follows the history of Tunisia over several millennia through the many
people and civilizations who have lived on this land.
** Artist & Academic aims to hold US museum boards to account
Clocking in at nearly 950 pages, the document is "a physical manifestation
of this sort of scale of the intersection between campaign finance and
cultural patronage and governance".
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** Should Art Be Insured Against Terrorism? The Industry Is Split
Whenever I negotiate a loan agreement of an object to a museum in another
country for a client, I insist on terrorism insurance, and I do get it.
** Egyptian curators denied visas to attend ICOM conference in Wales
Three Egyptian curators who were invited to present research at an
international museum conference in Swansea have been denied entry to the UK.
** Behind the scenes at a fundraising powerhouse
The amount of money flowing into Art Institute of Chicago raises the
question: How does the museum do it? A little bit art, a little bit science
and some alchemy.
** Brexit through the gift shop: Museum of European history divides critics
Some of the earliest critics were British tabloids and Ukip MEPs, who
described the museum as a "house of horrors" and "an expensive, wrong-headed
palace of propaganda".
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** A Behind-the-Scenes Peek at the Smithsonian's New Dinosaur Hall
This is the fun bit, when the hall starts coming to life-when long-imagined
exhibits are finally constructed, and when the museum's specimens come home
to be reassembled.
** British Museum To Return Looted 5,000-year-old artefacts To Iraq
Eight 5,000-year-old artefacts looted from Iraq following the fall of Saddam
Hussein will be returned after being identified by the British Museum. See
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** The U.S. Pizza Museum to Open in Chicago This Fall
Spoiler alert: no pizza will be served on-site, but the 3,000-square-foot
space will reportedly explore the history of pizza-making in the U.S., as
well as display paraphernalia like pizza-themed toys, menus, and clothing.
** Dot, the new Akron Art Museum chatbot, wants to get you talking about
art and life
She's got dark-frame glasses and a pink pageboy hairdo, and she's been
designed to spark conversations among museum visitors via texts on Facebook
Messenger app.
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** In a Historic Building, Your Feet Might as Well Be Jackhammers
Museums want visitors, but many must also grapple with the vibrations they
cause.
** With New Urgency, Museums Cultivate Curators of Colour
For decades the country's mainstream art museums have excluded people of
colour - from their top leadership to the curators who create shows to the
artists they display on their walls.
** Easter Island seeks return of 'stolen' Moai statue from the British
Museum
Easter Island's indigenous community want the British Museum to return a
unique Moai statue that was taken from them 150 years ago and given to Queen
Victoria as a gift.
** What Happens When Artists Get Trolled, Doxed and Threatened for Their
Work
Artists and art works that attract attention for their political message are
frequent targets of alt-right trolls, whose out-of-proportion reactions to
perceived transgressions often result in death threats, abuse and
harassment.
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** Chengdu MoCA quashes rumours of demise but its problems are endemic in
China's art museums
The museum was considered a promising addition to the emerging Sichuan art
scene when it was founded in 2011 by a state-owned investment company, but
reports of its closure have circulated since 2015.
** Why MIT Has an Art Museum
People are surprised sometimes that there's a contemporary museum at MIT
because they associate MIT with physics and engineering.
** Archaeologist uses Burning Man to learn about humanity's past
settlements
The weeklong festival's leave-no-trace ethos has not stopped archaeologist
Carolyn White from studying the city as she would any other vanished
civilization.
** Russian Authorities Order the Destruction of a Digital Artwork
In what may be the first recent case of Russian authorities ordering the
destruction of a specific work of art, a St. Petersburg court is in the
midst of hearing an appeal into the case of a work that shows the
disintegration of a photo of President Vladimir Putin.
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** Ancient Romans treated this fish as a recreational drug
This small, inconspicuous fish, holds a nasty secret: its head is riddled
with hallucinogenic substances which give people days of vivid, creepy,
LSD-like hallucinations.
** Surrealism Now
Exhibition with more than 110 artists from 50 countries
** Two Free Museum Publications
Promoting open access to current research relevant to the museum field
** Symposium: Material Culture and the Holocaust
How do the things we leave behind tell the story of a life?
** This Week's Horoscopes
Scorpio - You'll try to play both sides against each other for personal
gain, proving again why you are the worst chess player ever
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