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** Exhibition explores how jewellery acts upon and activates the body it adorns

A dazzling array of headdresses and ear ornaments, brooches and belts, necklaces and rings created between 2600 B.C.E. and the present day are being shown along with sculptures, paintings, prints, and photographs that enrich and amplify the many stories of transformation that jewellery tells.

** An Art Gallery Turned Hate Mail Into Its Unofficial Slogan And People Loved It

A New York state art gallery is turning a piece of hate mail on its head, adopting the screed as an unofficial slogan and putting it on T-shirts.

** A 4000-Year History Of New Year’s Resolutions

Beginning with a 12-day religious festival called Akitu, the Babylonians crowned a new king or re-upped their devotion to the sitting ruler.

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** Taiwan Museum promotes leopard cat conservation

An exhibition of leopard cats titled Realm of the Leopard Cat is on display at the National Museum of Natural Science in Taichung with the aim of promoting conservation.

** Take a Peek Inside London's Museum of Childhood

Part of the Victoria & Albert Museum, the collections contain everything from vintage and antique toys to children’s clothing, school materials, and artifacts from toy industry figures.

** Ancient Purebred Horse With Bronze-Plated Saddle Is Discovered in Pompeii

The horse, a purebred, was wearing a bronze-plated military saddle and ready to go when Mount Vesuvius erupted and buried the ancient city of Pompeii in A.D. 79.

** Fake Images Created By AI Are Getting So Good They’re Hard To Spot

In 2018, researchers and artists took AI-made and enhanced visuals to another level; scroll through these examples to see how software that can make images, video, and art could power new forms of entertainment—as well as disinformation,

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** A New Chapter On Restitution Of Plundered Art

By creating an obligation through France’s international relations, it is suggested that restitution of the artefacts would override any domestic principle of inalienability.

** Can We Still See Frida Kahlo’s Art Without The Scrim Of Kitsch In Between?

All successful brands rely on condensing an idea to its very essence, and the Frida Kahlo Corporation, which licenses her image – and donates a portion of monies to charities committed to improving the life of women and children – is clear on its website about what it believes that essence is: “The brand represents a female role model, a strong woman.”

** Smithsonian And National Zoo To Close After New Year's Day In Government Shutdown

Approximately two-thirds of Smithsonian staff are federal employees, which means they'll have to join the roughly 380,000 furloughed workers who were forced to stop doing their jobs on the day federal funding lapsed.

** Rembrandt and Saskia: a love story for the ages

Rembrandt was 28 when he married Saskia in 1634; 36 when she died, leaving him with a baby son and a sorrow so destructive he gave up painting in oils for several years.

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** New Beetle Species Are Named After the ‘Game of Thrones’ Dragons

The three beetles in question—Gymnetis drogoni, Gymnetis rhaegali and Gymnetis viserioni—are just a few of the more than 200 scarab beetle species named by University of Nebraska-Lincoln entomologist Brett C. Ratcliffe over the course of his 50-year career.

** Scientists Study Finds That Found Parachutes Are No More Effective than Empty Backpacks

It is a joke on non-judgmentalism, or egalitarianism of judgment, on the objectively sincere but wilfully naïve null hypothesis where all things remain equally possible until we have data.

** Exhibition explores the artistic dress around 1900 in fashion, art and society

Taking the artistic reform dress as a starting point, the exhibition at the Kunstmuseen Krefeld investigates for the first time the complex interrelations between art, fashion, photography, and dance in the context of the "Reform" movement between 1900 and 1914.

** Museums Are Entering The World Of Medicine With Prescriptions And Therapy Sessions

The MMFA-MFdC Museum Prescriptions program is a new treatment tool that makes museum visits accessible to thousands of patients suffering from a variety of physical and mental health problems.

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** These Museums Are Opening In 2019

Each new year ushers in new offerings; museum openings are among them. 2019 will welcome in new attractions within this sector, as new buildings or new additions are anticipated to open their doors and greet visitors with a variety of memorabilia, masterpieces or magnificent finds or collections.

** Science Museum Puts Fruitcake To The Test

For nearly a decade, the museum has been freezing fruitcake with liquid nitrogen, burning it with a blow torch, dropping it in a water tank and more.

** Germany allocates $1.1 million for new museum at former concentration camp site

The exhibit is part of a new Museum and Memorial Site in Sobibor, implemented by Poland in cooperation with Israel, the Netherlands and Slovakia.

** India’s first music museum to be set up

The country’s first music museum will be set up with assistance from the Central Government in Thiruvaiyaru, Tamil Nadu, the birth place of Saint Tyagaraja, one of the Trinity of Carnatic music.

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** Painting stolen from Ukrainian museum during WWII recovered in Connecticut

For 30 years, a large painting of a hunched Russian czar leaving the Kremlin on horseback hung in David Tracy's home.

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