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** Protesters try to seize African artwork from Paris museum
Activists dislodged a 19th century African funeral pole from its perch in a Paris museum Friday and tried to walk away with it, saying they wanted to return it to Africa in a protest against colonial-era abuses.
** Curator investigated for Tweets on how to damage bronze statues
UK arts professionals are voicing support for Madeline Odent, a curator at the Royston and District Museum and Art Gallery in Hertfordshire, who sparked controversy after discussing on social media substances that could be used to damage bronze statues.
** Eight ways museums could make the most of the coronavirus crisis
If museums emerge from this crisis with their old structures and behaviours intact—if they fail to seize this sudden fluidity to make changes—this would be a graver error than any breach of etiquette.
** Racism, Unrest, and the Role of the Museum Field
Attendees of the AAM Virtual Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo came together to hear from Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole, Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III, and Lori Fogarty on the museum field’s role in combating racism. See also - Museums Are Finally Taking a Stand. But Can They Find Their Footing?
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** An atmosphere of ‘fear and despair’ at Field Museum
Hoping to avoid the fate of several other major cash-strapped Chicago cultural institutions, workers at the Field Museum this week delivered a list of demands to museum management, including asking administrators to shoulder a greater portion of the financial burden to avoid layoffs.
** British Airways to sell artworks worth millions by major British stars
British Airways is quietly selling off millions of pounds of its art collection as it battles to survive the coronavirus crisis.
** Bird figurine is earliest Chinese artwork ever discovered, say experts
A tiny figurine of a bird, carved from burnt bone and no bigger than a £1 coin, is the earliest Chinese artwork ever discovered, according to an international team of archaeologists.
** The Guggenheim Bilbao reopens in COVID-hit Spain. For U.S. museums, a template?
With the coat check closed so as not to spread germs, mask-clad visitors carried their belongings on self-guided tours, using a Guggenheim app downloaded to their phones — just a few of the new safety measures in place at the art museum.
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** Historical city travel guide: Thebes, Egypt, 13th century BC
The British Museum invites you to travel back to the 13th century BC and to Thebes – one of ancient Egypt's most important citie; Ramesses II is reigning pharaoh and Thebes is a bustling city with impressive monuments, flourishing trade, delicious food and lively festivals.
** Leading the Van Gogh Museum Through a Future With No Tourists
Unlike Dutch national museums, which are supported by substantial government subsidies, the Van Gogh relies on earned income — ticket sales, and revenue from the shop and cafe — for 89 percent of its budget.
** Archaeologist Sentenced To Two Years In Prison For Fabricating Find
The discoveries were little short of miraculous: pieces of third-century pottery engraved with one of the first depictions of the crucified Christ, along with Egyptian hieroglyphics, and with Basque words that predated the earliest known written examples of the language by 600 years.
** La Belle’s Mysterious Bones
The work detailed is extraordinary, as the researchers used multiple methods and multiple tests per sample to estimate biogeographic affinities, genetic sex, eye and hair color.
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** Museums Collect Protest Signs to Preserve History in Real Time
History — painful, at times angry, history — unfolded outside the White House and curators from the Smithsonian Institution toured the area to begin collecting the art, signs, photographs and other artifacts that multiplied there during the recent protests over George Floyd’s death.
** Greece Wins Case in Dispute With Sotheby’s Over Ancient Artifact
Culture Minister Lina Mendoni said the outcome was a major victory in the fight against the illegal trade in antiquities, a lucrative but brutal business that strips ancient artifacts of key cultural and historical information that a proper excavation would reveal.
** The Guggenheim’s First Black Curator Is Denouncing the Museum’s Treatment of Her
As protests against police brutality and systemic racism have unfolded all around the world, major institutions in every field have also been called out for their complicity or active participation in the continual oppression and exclusion of people of color.
** Rare finds of Bronze Age culture in Iran
Iran has recently unearthed a rare Bronze Age culture, related settlements and relics following to rounds of excavation in a plain near the north-central city of Qom.
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** Museum re-imagines masterpieces in the pandemic, complete with face masks
A UK museum has released re-imagined versions of some of its most loved masterpieces, with subjects donning face masks amid the coronavirus pandemic.
** Virtual, experiential, backyard professional learning with the Museum of Natural Sciences
More than 30 years ago, a former flight attendant and social worker turned educator started offering professional development programs for teachers at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences (NCMNS).
** Preservation of Plastics
Unfortunately, a uniform terminology has not yet been established in the emerging discipline of plastic conservation; until now, various interest groups have come up with their own terminology for the same or similar observations, such as failures, defects, and aging phenomena.
** Dinosaur Killing Asteroid Hit Earth at ‘Deadliest Possible’ Angle
As a result of the angle, an especially large amount of climate-changing gases would have been released quickly into the atmosphere.
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** Rubens House presents new Rubens Self-Portrait
The Rubens House in Antwerp has a remarkable new exhibit to unveil: a recently rediscovered Rubens self-portrait
** The Conservation and Presentation of Mosaics: At What Cost?
Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the International Committee for the Conservation of Mosaics, Sardinia, October 27–31, 2014
** Visual Resources Association’s 2021 Annual Conference
The VRA’s 2021 Annual Conference will be held in Chicago, IL from Tuesday, March 23th - March 26th, 2021
** This Week's Horoscopes
Virgo - You’re not the kind of person who constantly goes around saying the sky is falling, making you ill-equipped to cope with the events of this Thursday.
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