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** Budapest Holocaust Museum Vows to Include Hungary's Role in Nazi Genocide

Last week, Hungary’s Chabad community promised that the museum would show the role of both the Hungarian government and ordinary Hungarians in the Holocaust, alongside tales of Jewish heroism and Hungarians who saved Jews.

** How Nuclear Bomb Tests Are Helping To Identify Art Forgeries

The increase in carbon 14 was reflected in anything that lived or died after 1963, including wood and fibres that might make up the support or canvas of a modern work of art or the organic matter used to bind pigments in modern paint.

** Mona Lisa’s Smile? She Was Faking It, Say Researchers

A genuine smile causes the checks to raise and muscles around the eyes to contract, and is called a Duchenne smile, after 19th century French neurologist Guillaume Duchenne whereas the asymmetric smile, also known as a non-Duchenne smile, "reflects a non-genuine emotion and is thought to occur when the subject lies".

** T-Rex And Robots And Toons, Oh My!

The Smithsonian's exhibition demonstrates what scientists can learn from seemingly innocuous marks on a fossil, uses a cartoon of an ancient sea creature to show why your brain is located in your skull, and lets visitors get up close and personal with giant bronze insects.

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** Why Is Public Funding For The Arts So Problematic?

Arguments about the theory, policy and practice of public funding for the arts have been the tinnitus of my professional life; it is always there and, though I can often ignore it, it is a legitimate question for everyone who works in the field.

** Tate Modern opens the UK's first ever retrospective of artist Natalia Goncharova

Throughout her varied career she challenged the limits of artistic, social and gender conventions, from parading through the streets of Moscow displaying futurist body art and scandalising newspapers of the day, to creating internationally acclaimed designs for fashion and the theatre.

** Can Britain’s National Portrait Gallery Cut Its Ties To British Petroleum?

A spokesperson for BP said the firm was disappointed that several artists had voiced their concerns about its support of artistic endeavours, adding that millions of people had visited exhibitions sponsored by the company.

** The Challenges Facing MoMA When It Reopens This Fall

The Museum of Modern Art is slouching toward a shutdown starting June 15, in order to complete its latest expansion — which is really an attempt to fix the last one.

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** Ancient DNA from Roman and medieval grape seeds reveal ancestry of wine making

A grape variety still used in wine production in France today can be traced back 900 years to just one ancestral plant, scientists have discovered.

** How Do Museums Decide On Exhibition Content?

The idea for a community conversation for a shopping exhibition came from reading about similar events at other museums and historical societies, combined with hearing the enthusiasm that people in Luzerne County had for talking about and sharing their history.

** La Brea Tar Pits begins master planning to reimagine the LA landmark & research site

La Brea Tar Pits and the Page Museum are the only facilities of their kind in the world—an active, internationally renowned site of paleontological research in the heart of a great city, and a museum that both supports the scientists’ work and helps interpret it for more than 400,000 visitors a year.

** Renoir Exhibition Marks Centenary Of His Death

The exhibition is the first major exploration of Renoir’s unceasing interest in the human form, and it reconsiders Renoir as a constantly evolving artist whose style moved from Realism into luminous Impressionism and culminated in the modern classicism of his last decades.

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** Museums should use Trump protest artefacts to challenge intolerance

The Museums Association’s (MA) director has called on museums to use their collections “to discuss issues of gender, power and discrimination” following Donald Trump’s state visit to the UK.

** The Science Museum To Get New Gallery... About London

Highlights will include a copy of Newton's Principia Mathematica (which some would argue is the most important book ever published), Newton's telescope, and Robert Hooke's microscope and illustrations (which first revealed the hidden world of the small).

** In Iraq Museum, There Are Things ‘That Are Nowhere Else in the World’

In addition to trying to get back the pieces that were looted (some 4,300 have been recovered), the challenge now is to make the museum accessible to as many Iraqis as possible.

** Solved: A Case of Mistaken Identity in a Madrid Art Museum

On June 4, 2019, the museum confirmed that, after conducting extensive comparative analyses of portraits of both men, it was Rodin on display in their miniatures room, not Leopold.

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** The First Poster Museum in the United States to Open

The United States has niche museums for almost every subject, from trains and boats, to UFOs and conspiracy theories, but it’s never had a museum celebrating the art and history of the poster.

** The Birdman Of Siberia: Sensational Finds In The Heart Of Russia Puzzle Scientists

Two unique burials of the Odinov culture (early Bronze) were unearthed last year at the Ust-Tartas site in Novosibirsk region; inside one of them researches found several dozen long beaks and skulls of large birds assembled into something looking like a collar, a head dress, or armour.

** Using museum collections to solve the Pink and White Terraces mystery

A scientist and aspiring field art historian shares his story on how he applied new methodology to help pin down the location of the iconic Pink and White Terraces, lost to the world with the Mt Tarawera eruption of 1886.

** Gem-like fossils reveal stunning new dinosaur species

The remains not only belong to the first herd or family group of dinosaurs discovered in the country, they also represent the most complete dinosaur fossil yet found preserved in opal.

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** Highland Warriors

The Ottawa world premiere of Highland Warriors, a major new exhibition at the Canadian War Museum

** The Visual Resources Association’s 2020 Annual Conference

The 2020 Annual Conference will be held in Baltimore, Maryland

** English Heritage Conference

English Heritage is holding a conference at Osborne House, Isle of Wight on 6-8 November 2019

** NASA Discovers Impact Crater Of Meteorite That First Brought Horses To Earth

Though they have yet to find fossilized oats, apples, or sugar cubes, it’s clear that the rocky body which fell here contained enough water to allow these primal ponies to survive in interplanetary space.

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