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** $890m Sydney museum move could be most expensive gallery relocation in history

The New South Wales (NSW) state government is pushing ahead with a controversial plan to relocate the Powerhouse Museum—part of the Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences—from central Sydney to a western suburb, despite widespread criticism and an ongoing parliamentary inquiry.

** Programme of paid internships aims to make US museum staff more diverse

In response to the demographic disparity of staff in museums, the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) has launched a paid internship programme aimed at giving undergraduate students from under-represented backgrounds an opportunity to work in the arts.

** When the Painting Is Provocative but the Museum Is Cautious

The museum even changed its security guards’ uniforms from a sombre grey to a more cheerful blue, a planned update that was expedited because of the show.

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** The Whitney Is Not an Art Museum

The exhibit was an entire floor of lies, obscenity, melodrama, and a single rhetorical trick used 8,000 times; which, to borrow a conceit from Meryl Streep, are not the arts.

** Concerns for Collections at Te Papa

Former Manager of Collection Services at Te Papa Dr Mike Rudge says job cuts at New Zealand's national museum will seriously compromise the collections.

** New and Meaningful Connections; A Legacy Institution Taps Artists Committed to Social Change

For all the talk of legacy institutions as calcified, red tape-strewn dinosaurs, they actually bring a lot to the table—like big audiences, decades of strong relationships, a wealth of in-house talent, and fine-tuned programs.

** How a Female-Led Art Restoration Movement in Florence Is Reshaping the Canon

The AWA non-profit has become the go-to for Florentine curators who want to research their own collections, which house many works by women that have been unseen for centuries.

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** Trump Has Yet to Award the National Arts Medals for 2016

The holdup around the arts medals is notable because of President Trump’s rocky relationship with the National Endowment for Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

** This Is What Robotic Art Looks Like in 2018

While critics of the ever-growing influence of AI may view robot art as the latest insult to human creativity, Conru maintains that the technology will only help artists, perhaps by enabling them to create art that is “intellectually or physically” more ambitious than previously seen.

** Thai cave rescue site to become a museum

Rescue chief Narongsak Osottanakorn told reporters the site would ultimately be converted into a museum showcasing the clothes and equipment used during the dramatic rescue.

** Israel Museum reunites rings Sigmund Freud used to bind students

A new exhibition in Jerusalem is for the first time bringing together signet rings Sigmund Freud had bestowed upon chosen disciples, initially as part of a secret psychoanalytical society.

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** Plans unveiled for Oscar Wilde museum at Reading Prison

The jail was immortalised by Wilde's poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol which he wrote during his two-year sentence for gross indecency, a crime he was convicted of when homosexual acts were illegal.

** The New Story of Humanity's Origins in Africa

Yes, we evolved from ancestral hominids in Africa, but we did it in a complicated fashion—one that involves the entire continent .

** The Divergence of Art and Fashion at the Metropolitan Museum

Presenting contemporary garments alongside Byzantine and Medieval artworks underlines the visual differences between the two genres of objects.

** Stolen Bronze Age dagger returns to Slovenia after 33 years

A precious bronze dagger, which dates back around 3,600 years, has been returned to Slovenia 33 years after it was stolen from the National Museum in Ljubljana.

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** Do touch the exhibits: Inside the Bell Museum’s Touch & See Lab

Interestingly, the Bell Museum was among the first — and many say the first — natural history museums in the United States to have this tactile, interactive space in a natural history museum setting.

** Coin found on Aussie island could be oldest artefact in continents history

An uninhabited island off the coast of Arnhem Land may seem worlds apart from medieval Africa, but believe it or not, they're more connected than you'd think.

** Two Florence Museums Are Tracing the City’s 500-Year Connection to Islamic Art

The Uffizi explores East-West interactions between the 15th and 17th centuries; the Bargello features donations from 19th- and 20th-century collectors.

** The Early Television Museum

The antique machines are mostly in working condition, including the black-and-white pre-war TVs, which visitors can turn on and view by pushing a wall-mounted button.

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** A raid on an Italian artifact smuggling ring may have unlocked a vast forgery web

The recent bust of one of Italy's oldest organized crime rings may have 'convulsive' impacts on the scholarly world of artifacts and forgeries.

** Smithsonian Recovering Voices Community Research Program - Call for Proposals

Recovering Voices is pleased to announce the 2019 Community Research Program Call for Proposals

** British Council International Travel Grants 2018-19

Application deadline 24 September 2018

** Visual Resources Association Foundation Regional Workshops: Call for host site applications

The Visual Resources Association Foundation

** This Week's Horoscopes

Scorpio - Don’t worry: You’re more than just a collection of annoying, loosely bundled neuroses. There are some tightly wound and dangerous psychoses in there, too

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