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** Give the Easter Islanders their statue back – it doesn’t belong in the British Museum

A deeper worry is what restitution will mean to the purpose of world museums; they really are the heirs to empire and their apologists incant the curatorial shtick, that they are global custodians, a scholarly resource, a place that gives context to art.

** The Story Behind Degas’ ‘Little Dancer’ Is Disturbing, But Not In The Way You Expect

Laurens posits that it’s highly unlikely Degas sexually abused 14-year-old van Goethem, because Degas was a well-documented celibate, his abstinence rooted in a disgust of womankind.

** Museo del Prado looks back on two hundred years of history

Since the Museo Real opened its doors on 19th November 1819 with works from the Royal Collections, this institution has served as one of the leading depositaries for the history of Western art, a key point of reference for Spanish culture and an object of collective pride.

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** Notorious forger on ethics, the art market and how to make a great fake

In 2011, he was found guilty by a German court of forgery and corruption relating to 14 fakes that had sold for a total of $45m, sending shockwaves through the art world

** Why 536 was ‘the worst year to be alive’

Historians have long known that the middle of the sixth century was a dark hour in what used to be called the Dark Ages, but the source of the mysterious clouds has long been a puzzle.

** The art secrets hiding in plain sight

On either side of the barmaid in Édouard Manet's famous depiction of a raucous cabaret in Paris, bottles of a British beer manufactured by the Bass Brewery call attention to themselves by the distinctive, red triangle printed on their label.

** Download 569 Free Art Books from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

You could pay $118 on Amazon for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's catalogue The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry; or you could pay $0 to download it at MetPublications, the site offering "five decades of Met Museum publications on art history available to read, download, and/or search for free."

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** Empty, haunting Anne Frank House Museum revamped for new generation

The museum and tiny apartment where Anne wrote her diary — which has become the most widely-read document to emerge from the Holocaust — attract 1.2 million visitors annually.

** Middle East Looters Turn to Spirit Possession to Find Gold Treasure

Archaeologists working in the Middle East told Live Science that looters, as well as people not involved in looting, strongly believe that gold treasure — be it coins or otherwise — waits to be found in the region.

** Museums in France Should Return African Treasures, Report Says

The report was commissioned in March by President Emmanuel Macron of France from two academics, who were asked to draw up proposals for the restitution of pieces of African cultural heritage.

** Melanesian art: redux

Melanesian art, curated by Tuckson, opened at the Art Gallery of New South Wales with over 370 works from public and private collections. One of the most comprehensive exhibitions of Pacific art held in an Australian gallery, it featured work from Papua New Guinea, Torres Strait, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Vanuatu and Western New Guinea.

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** Peeling Back the Paint to Discover Bruegel’s Secrets

New technology allows researchers to look beneath the layers of the Dutch master’s works, revealing some macabre details.

** The 'Swiss Army knife of prehistoric tools' found in Asia

New analysis of artifacts found at a South China archaeological site shows that sophisticated tool technology emerged in East Asia earlier than previously thought.

** Scholars criticise National Museum of Ireland for failing to credit research

An internal review is underway at the National Museum of Ireland (NMI) after a number of academics criticised it for failing to credit their research in its current exhibition on the Spanish flu.

** Museum of London eyes Boris Johnson's water-cannon trucks

Were it to be available to us, a water cannon purchased by a former London mayor could have been a significant object within our collection and allow us to tell a complex story about modern policing in the city.

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** The History of the Oceans Is Locked in Whale Earwax

The Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa has 4,000 ear plugs, and we had 100 shipped to us; we’re getting quite deep into this.

** New Statue of Liberty Museum Honours the Immigrant Experience

It was a monumental task: design a museum beside Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi’s “Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World,” in honour of her enduring legacy — and to accommodate 4.5 million annual visitors

** Fight over dinosaur fossils comes down to what's a mineral

About 66 million years after two dinosaurs died apparently locked in battle on the plains of modern-day Montana, an unusual fight over who owns the entangled fossils has become a multimillion-dollar issue that hinges on the legal definition of "mineral."

** Hundreds of Tiny Terracotta Warriors Found

Inside a 2,100-year-old pit in China, archaeologists have discovered a miniature army of sorts: carefully arranged chariots and mini statues of cavalry, watchtowers, infantry and musicians.

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** Bee Beautiful

Oxford University Museum of Natural History conservator Bethany Palumbo tells us how she restored a beautiful 19th-century papier-mâché model of a honeybee hive, created by master model-maker and anatomist Louis Auzoux.

** Workshop on Cultural Heritage, Migration and the Indian Diaspora

Expressions of interest to participate in the workshop are invited from UK-based researchers

** AAMG 2019 – Call for Papers: Interrogating Cultural Theft – Case Studies

What happens when a museum finds artworks or artifacts in their collection that may have been a result of theft or looting?

** Call for Papers for the Panel: European Cultural Heritage – Celebrating Diversity

As part of the 7th Euroacademia International Conference ‘The European Union and the Politicization of Europe’

** This Week's Horoscopes

Leo - The stars foretell that food will materialize in your refrigerator the fourth time you open it.

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