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** House of Lords warns Brexit may starve UK museums of skilled workers
The National Museums Directors’ Council and the Museums Association made a
joint submission, expressing “severe concerns” about the impact of Brexit on
museum staff, audiences and the sharing of collections, ideas and expertise
across European borders.
** Acknowledging the Intellectual Labour of Curators in a Museum
In the world of museums, where I work as a curator, and where I have often
witnessed lack of proper crediting, it is time to properly recognize the
deeply collaborative intellectual labour that underpins so much of what we
do.
** The Louvre’s Critically Acclaimed Delacroix Show Gets Record-Breaking
Attendance
A record half a million people went to the Louvre’s Eugčne Delacroix
blockbuster, which is headed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the fall.
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** They stole a ‘priceless’ gold bar from a Key West museum — and they’re
paying the price
Saying they destroyed a priceless artifact, a federal judge has handed out
prison terms to the two thieves who eight years ago helped themselves to a
17th century gold bar that had been the centrepiece of a Key West museum..
** Amid MoMA’s $450 Million Expansion, Employee Tensions Are Running High
The dispute is not the first of its kind, either for MoMA or for any number
of major institutions that spend lavishly on expansions while refusing to
meet their workers’ demands.
** While Building a Museum for Mosaics in Israel, Another Gorgeous Mosaic
Is Found
The 1,700-year-old manse unearthed in Lod featured every luxury, as well as
glorious mosaics showing animals but no people.
** How one historic museum has provided a lifeline for the world's fastest
bird
On June 20 1855, a smattering of Oxford dons and other college notables
gathered as the foundation stone was laid for what was intended to be a
dedicated science museum at the university.
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** Should Museums Be Advocating For Viewers to Slow Down?
Now in its eighth year, the annual event Slow Art Day hasn’t necessarily
gained a lot of popularity, but the notion behind it, to discourage
fleeting-glance style art spectating, might have a growing number of
advocates—at least on the part of museum professionals.
** Planned Japanese war museum criticized for tourism focus
A project to build a war museum in the town of Nishiki, Kumamoto Prefecture,
has drawn the ire of a group of local residents, who say the initiative is
“downplaying its peaceful purpose.”
** Technology Museum of l'Empordŕ
This small, family-run museum is largely unknown, despite the fact it boasts
a huge collection of old, rare typewriters and sewing machines.
** Ode to the Library Museum
By immobilizing pages, by securing spines, by presenting material that is
illegible or unintelligible to the average modern reader, the library museum
ruptures our habitual schema for what to do when confronted with a text.
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** Diary of an art historian: at last, some common sense for the abolition
of image fees
I bring better news from the campaign to abolish fees for images of works in
British public collections. Birmingham Museums Trust has decided to go for
“open access”, the first major British museum to do so.
** Does Polly really want a cracker?
Te Papa will be welcoming Dr Barbara Mizumo Tomotani in September, to work
on the isotopic and morphometric analyses of some of New Zealand’s most
threatened endemic birds (including some extinct species) – 10 species from
kakapo to huia.
** New Free Guide: Working With Freelancers
A new guide – Working with Freelancers – has been created to support museums
in finding, commissioning, briefing, working with and paying freelancers and
consultants.
** Paris’s first digital art museum: all lit up at Atelier des Lumičres
The museum is in a former foundry and is operated by Culturespaces, a French
museum foundation that specialise in immersive art displays.
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** Worms frozen in permafrost for up to 42,000 years come back to life
Nematodes moving and eating again for the first time since the Pleistocene
age in major scientific breakthrough, say experts.
** 19th Century Women Artists Get Overdue Recognition — Will Their Market
Follow?
In 19th century Paris, the cards were stacked against women making art, and
certainly against making a living making art.
** Museum of Interest - Topaz Museum
A museum in rural Utah documents the history of the Japanese Americans who
were forcibly relocated there.
** California museum can keep Cranachs looted by Nazis
The Federal appeals court says the Norton Simon Museum can keep two 16th
century masterpieces depicting Adam and Eve by the German Renaissance
painter Lucas Cranach the Elder.
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** Volunteers find 560,000-year-old milk tooth in France
French and Spanish volunteer archaeologists have discovered a child's milk
tooth dating back 560,000 years in the mountains of southern France.
** Popular Art, Architecture & Design
Call for Papers
** Now On View: Preserving Modern and Contemporary Museum Collections
The Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts (CCAHA)
** Museums Association Conference & Exhibition 2018
8-10 November, Belfast
** This Week's Horoscopes
Leo - Betrayal, treason, and vile calumny will be the order of things next
week, which you must admit, sounds a lot cooler than the light office work
you’re used to.
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