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** Was the Gardner Museum art heist an inside job?

It’s said that the thieves acted like they had the run of the place, as if they knew no one would be coming, as if they had an inside man.

** Archaeologists and curators leaving UK over Brexit fears

The range of issues include staff and artists requiring visas, equipment needing carnets and exhibitions needing licences to tour, in addition to increased costs relating to working or touring overseas.

** Karma restored: mythical London Stone returns to its City home

The London Stone is a not particularly attractive lump of sooty limestone, but it has been laden with a plethora of myths and mysteries, including the belief that if it is moved from its home in the City then London will no longer flourish.

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** Glamping goes Tudor: historians to remake Henry VIII’s opulent tent

The Historic Royal Palaces (HRP) has launched an ambitious project to reconstruct a huge section of one of Henry VIII’s tents, an edifice whose spectacular appearance is hinted at by a surviving design in the British Library.

** Marvels of the human mind that were ripped off by modernists

It was the European modernists, of course, who got all the wealth and fame while their collections of Oceanian art went down in art history as troves of “raw material” for their supposedly unprecedented ideas.

** Damien Hirst collectors lose thousands

Art economist says it is unlikely that collectors who bought Hirst's work as an investment would ever recoup the money they spent.

** The Museo del Prado is taking its activities to more than 30 cities

The celebration of the Bicentenary is a homage to that history and one that allows for an in-depth analysis of the Prado’s evolution over the past 200 years, with events that give visual form to the changes that have taken place.

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** Museum spent millions on Abraham Lincoln’s hat – but it might not be his

The crown jewel of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum’s collection, Lincoln’s stovepipe hat, one of just three thought to still exist, may not have belonged to the 16th president after all.

** As its opening day arrives, meet five who kept MOCA’s dream alive

It’s been a roller-coaster three years for MOCA, amid setbacks, leaps ahead and everything in between, but the long-mothballed museum has finally, actually, happened.

** Who Says Culture Doesn’t Pay? $9.9 Billion Was Spent on New Arts Projects in 2017

A striking 107 new cultural facilities opened around the world last year, up from 101 in 2016, according to a new study.

** New Research Finds that Caravaggio Died of Sepsis, Not Syphilis

A serial gambler with a penchant for prostitutes, booze, and brawls, art historians have largely agreed for the last four centuries that Caravaggio died of syphilis in 1610.

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** Met Director Max Hollein's Plans For The Museum

Coming to the Met at a time when nearly every aspect of the universal museum is coming into ethical question, Hollein has to confront daunting challenges.

** A 558-Million-Year-Old Mystery Has Been Solved

First discovered in the 1940s, Dickinsonia is one of the most iconic members of the so-called Ediacaran biota—a group of mysterious, soft-bodied organisms that existed between 541 and 570 million years ago,

** San Francisco Museum Shows Off Modern Muslim Women’s Fashion

The first major museum exhibition of contemporary Muslim women's fashion reflects designs from around the world that are vibrant and elegant, playful and diverse.

** Pablo Escobar museum in Colombia shut down

Colombian police have shut down a small museum, dedicated to the life of drug lord Pablo Escobar in Medellín and is owned by Escobar's brother.

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** Russian authorities force Gulag museum to close

Russian officials have shut down a regional museum of Gulag history in a bid to whitewash the crimes of the Soviet secret police, says its founder, Nikolay Arakcheev.

** Smithsonian Museum of Natural History Receives Rare Red Topaz

The giant gemstone called the Whitney Flame Topaz was privately owned for decades until philanthropist Coralyn Wright Whitney recently gave it to the museum along with a $5 million endowment.

** Ladies of Quality and Distinction at The Foundling Museum

These are the women who are being celebrated in a new exhibition to mark 100 years of women’s suffrage, which will—for the first time—take the governors’ portraits from the walls and replace them with this pioneering brigade.

** Ancient treasures on show in Germany reveal turbulent past

An arrowhead firmly lodged in the skull of an ancient fallen warrior, a voluptuous woman’s form carved from ivory and the mask of a Roman river god are among more than 1,000 major archaeological discoveries being brought together for the first time.

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** Promised Museum Gift Heads To The Auction Block Instead

Museums are often loath to condemn donors who renege on promised gifts unless the pledged donation involves a substantial sum that the museum relied on to meet its budget or finance a special project.

** CFP: Flickering Landscapes Conference

University of Central Florida, Orlando

** Call for Proposals: Digital Initiatives Symposium 2019

The Digital Initiatives Symposium at the University of San Diego

** Commemorating the Welsh Experience of The Great War at Sea

MOROL / U-Boat Project 1914–18 Conference

** Zoologists Admit You Really Got To Hand It To Bats For Learning To Fly

The zoologists, however, acknowledged that you really couldn’t come down too hard on skipjack tuna for not figuring out a way to fly, all things considered

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