Welcome back to GLOBAL MUSEUM, your award-winning & free online compendium, read weekly since 1998 by 8,000+ readers in more than 201 countries. http://www.globalmuseum.org/ ** Will The Art Gallery System As We Know It Survive? There’s no reason why the art gallery as we know it, a 19th century invention, should last forever, but there’s also no sign of an alternative on the horizon. ** This motorcycle re-imagines a radical 100-year-old art-deco design The 2029 project was commissioned by the Haas Moto Museum and Sculpture Gallery, a collection of more than 200 motorcycles located in Dallas, Texas. ** 1,100+ Works of Art by Georgia O’Keeffe Is Now Free to View Online The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico has made 1,100+ works of art by the modern American painter available to view online for free. ** How Elegant Vienna Became An Explosion Of Modernism The psychologically driven fine art of Vienna 1900 is epitomised by the paintings of Klimt, Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka; by turns erotic and grotesque, ornamental and bare, this art is unflinchingly realistic in its depictions of human desires, frailties and suffering. _______________________________________________________________________ ARE YOU ONE OF THE 4,533? 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Art that has been digitised, but also art that is born digital, especially video art? ** Guggenheim Opens Investigation Into Basquiat Show After Racism Complaints After nearly a quarter of all employees signed onto a letter accusing executives of racism and mismanagement, the museum has hired a lawyer to start an independent investigation. ** A Look Back at the Short-Lived Met Breuer: What Worked and What Didn’t The problem is that it never made much sense—certainly not to those unaware of the logistical particularities of the arrangement—as to why an exhibition should be at the Met Breuer as opposed to at the plain old Met. __________________________________________________________________________________ Become a Facebook Follower - Join 2,585 of us who Like Global Museum on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Museum/129179522574? __________________________________________________________________________________ ** Britain’s Arts Organizations Are Begging For Help, In The Rest Europe, They’re Getting It Museums in England can reopen from July 4, although most will come back gradually over the next few months; on the continent, museums have been open for weeks (in some cases, months). ** The Enduring Mystery of the Ghent Altarpiece, the World's Most-Stolen Painting The Ghent Altarpiece was the first major artwork to utilize oil-based paint, a medium that allowed for unprecedented clarity and vivid colouring. ** Tate Amends Prestigious Turner Prize This year’s awarding of the Turner Prize, one of Europe’s premier art awards, became one of the many art events that were altered drastically when Tate, the British museum network that facilitates it, reconstituted the prize in light of the coronavirus pandemic. ** Is online cultural content good for mental health and wellbeing? The University of Oxford has launched a project exploring whether online cultural content has been beneficial to mental health and wellbeing during the coronavirus lockdown. ______________________________________________________________________________ Pin Us on Pinterest. Global Museum's Pinterest Boards - Enjoy! 2.3K Pins, 1.16K Followers http://pinterest.com/globalmuseum/museums/ ______________________________________________________________________________ ** What lies beneath? A new species of endemic triplefin A recent discovery has highlighted, yet again, just how poorly we know what lives around our coasts – some within sight of our major cities – especially among rocky reefs. ** Smithsonian’s Leader Says ‘Museums Have a Social Justice Role to Play’ Lonnie Bunch, who oversees a host of museums and libraries, says the role of cultural institutions is to make people “feel comfortable with nuance and complexity.” ** What keeps this museum director centered? Tomoko Kuta of the New Children’s Museum, sheltering at home, enjoys gardening, long walks and feel-good podcasts. ** Second Brazilian museum fire in two years reignites calls for reform A recent fire at a natural history museum in Minas Gerais is forcing some researchers to relive the pain of losing priceless specimens and artefacts. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Follow Us On Twitter - http://twitter.com/globalmuseum 203.6K Museum News Tweets from around the Globe, 4,728 Followers worldwide and growing fast ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ** From museum to mosque? Turkish court to rule on Hagia Sophia’s fate Turkey's greatest monument, the Hagia Sophia, has spent the past eight decades as a museum, its secular status serving as a compromise between Muslims and Christians who have both worshipped beneath its vast dome over the centuries. ** Carnegie Museum of Natural History Re-opens with World Premiere “Dinosaur Armor” Dinosaur Armor brings examples of these extraordinary adaptations to life, chronicling 500 million years of transformations that range from the combative to the ornamental to the bizarre. ** A mortifying exposé of working conditions at the Museum of Ice Cream The MOIC laid off 200 employees in New York and San Francisco, and at least some of them would be fine if Bunn's pop-up empire never reopens. ** LACMA To Return 4 Korean Paintings LACMA will restitute four Joseon Dynasty paintings that were apparently stolen from Korea's Mount Seorak temple by American soldiers in 1954. ____________________________________________________________________________________________ FACE MASKS | FACE SHIELDS | Plus Gifts & All Sorts of Gear In The Global Museum Store –http://www.zazzle.com/thedigitalconsultant T-Shirts, Prints, Mugs & More … You Name It, We’ve Got it, You Can Buy It…. For Yourself, Or For The Museum Shop! ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ** Museum reopening guidance New guidance on reopening museums has been published by the National Museum Directors’ Council (NMDC) with support from DCMS and the Museums and Galleries Working Group. ** Caring for Heritage Collections during the COVID-19 Pandemic The Canadian Conservation Institute released a note on preparing to reopen collections spaces. ** Association Of Independent Museums Virtual Conference Videos AIM’s first ever virtual conference drew practitioners, professionals, experts and policymakers together from across the cultural spectrum ** Time To Celebrate: The Doomsday Clock Has Been Set To Wine O’Clock According to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, the group of academics responsible for setting the Doomsday Clock that tracks the globe’s proximity to total disaster, the international tensions currently plaguing the world have placed mankind on the brink of popping the cork on a bottle of rosé, climbing into a hot bubble bath, and just letting the booze do its thing ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Global Museum’s New Pandemic Resources Section –https://tinyurl.com/museumpandemic Resources & Important links ____________________________________________________________________________________________ All the latest Museum News, Views & Vacancies plus Bookshop, Museum Store, Resume Postings, Museum Studies Listing & More. 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