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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

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** New Approaches to Managing Illegal Wildlife Trade

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Aquarius - You’re spending less time considering your future these days, which, all things considered, is only appropriate

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