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** Following Social Media Censorship, Viennese Museums Take Their Art to OnlyFans
In migrating these offerings to OnlyFans, Hartlauer claimed that Vienna’s museums were enacting more than just a publicity stunt—they were also aiming to “start a conversation” about the necessity of social media and the problems associated with it.
** Pressure grows on other restitution cases ahead of first Benin bronze return
With the issue of restitution under the spotlight like never before, pressure has grown on UK institutions to resolve other long-running disputes over objects acquired in the colonial era.
** Newark Museum’s Dan Mask Fetches 50 Times Its High Estimate
When an object at auction fetches many multiples of its expected price, as happened with the Newark Museum’s recent sale of a Dan Peoples mask for $15,000, either the owner and the auction house are clueless about what they are offering, or at least two competing buyers believe it’s something that’s much more valuable than the seller realizes.
** Coal giant Adani to sponsor Science Museum’s green energy gallery
London’s Science Museum has unveiled plans for a new green energy gallery sponsored by the Indian conglomerate Adani, which has significant interests in coal mining and coal-fired power.
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** Egyptian Officials Detain Artist-Robot Ai-Da on Suspicion of Espionage
The trouble reportedly started when Egyptian officials noticed that Ai-Da had a modem and cameras for eyes; because of the technology within the robot, officials grew concerned that the artist-robot may have been part of an espionage conspiracy.
** An Extraordinary 500-Year-Old Shipwreck Is Rewriting the History of the Age of Discovery
In the frigid Baltic Sea, archaeologists probing the surprisingly well-preserved remains of a revolutionary warship are seeing the era in a new way.
** Hollywood’s latest attraction: a museum dedicated to horror and science fiction
Hollywood’s next attraction meant to lure millions of annual visitors is a feast of movie monsters and science fiction villains gathered by a former child actor turned director whose collecting hobby escalated to blockbuster proportions.
** What’s on at the British Museum in 2022?
Get a sneak peek at the British Museum’s 2022 special exhibitions as we take a first look at our shows on Stonehenge, hieroglyphs and feminine power.
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** Pablo Picasso’s life under surveillance
He was put under surveillance based on rumours gathered by police informants that he was associated with anarchists and was a 'modern' artist of dubious merit.
** Illegal Excavations of Cultural Property Surged During Pandemic: Interpol Survey
Art heists at museums accounted for a smaller portion of the illegal activity than usual, the survey found; crimes involving museum property decreased from 2019 to 2020 in every region except for North and South America.
** Sotheby’s Launches an NFT-Only Marketplace
The layout of the Metaverse website, similar in format to NFT-specific platforms such as OpenSea and Nifty Gateway, is designed to display the NFTs so that viewers can easily see the transaction history of any piece.
** UCLA is selling a Picasso. Why that's a good thing
Unfortunately, at the other end of the spectrum, another museum offers a dismal example of exploiting its art collection as a virtual bank; a move is so egregious that it threatens to harm the entire museum field.
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** Forget everything you know about museums — this is different
With 11 exhibition halls spread across 13 floors and capped by a panoramic restaurant, it provides a colossal stage for Munch’s extraordinary gift to the city on his death in 1944: around 28,000 works.
** Palaeontologists spend 20,000 hours preparing, researching dinomummy
Another 10,000 hours of work are needed to finish excavating Dakota’s body block, but the research doesn’t end there.
** Very dishy: small bowl in British Museum revealed to be extremely rare Chinese imperial ceramic
Previously thought to be Korean, the brush washer has been newly identified as being nearly 1,000 years old and manufactured at the imperial Ru kiln.
** The Curious Case of Norway’s Disturbing Demon Wall
A respected conservator restoring a centuries-old church mural saw the devil in the details—and created a wholly imagined, diabolical scene.
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** Museum Staff as Disaster Service Workers
Brianna was one of two museum staff assigned to the regional hospital for an entire year, and returned to us when the county museum finally reopened to the public in March 2021.
** Endangered archive of Siberian indigenous voices to be digitised
The recordings were made over a period of six decades from 1920s to the 1980s and are currently held on cassette tape at Pushkin House in St Petersburg, Russia.
** Our Irish Chair: Tradition Revisited
Over a period of 90 years, the National Museum of Ireland has collected examples of a particular chair type known as the 'Sligo' chair or 'Tuam' chair - named after two towns in the northwest of Ireland.
** Equity and Inclusion for Museums
Opening conversations and laying the foundations for equity and inclusion at your museum.
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** American Anthropological Association Hybrid Annual Meeting
November 17 – 21.
** Popular Art, Architecture & Design - Call for Papers
Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association
** Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya
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** Humour Spot
Smithsonian Acquires Arms Of Kermit The Frog Puppeteer
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