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** Greece to step up Parthenon marbles pressure amid signs tide is turning
Greece has vowed to intensify its campaign for the reunification of the Parthenon sculptures amid “optimistic” signs that British public opinion has shifted markedly in favour of returning the prized “Elgin” marbles to Athens.
** LACMA, the corporate rent-a-museum
We’re being asked to believe that this low-wattage marketing idea is something worthy of our rapt, if pandemic-weary, attention.
** Who will be the gatekeepers of digital art?
Museums, curators and art professionals endorse traditional art, but who will be the gatekeepers for the online world?
** Kazakhstan protestors entered leading museum looking for ancient armour
Around 200 protesters descended on one of Kazakhstan’s top museums in Almaty, the former capital, as widespread protests swept the country last week.
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** New York’s Metropolitan Museum buys four extremely rare Van Gogh prints
Vincent wanted to sell the set for under a dollar as “art for the people”—the museum will have paid several million.
** Manicure at the Mauritshuis? Dutch museums turn into beauty parlours in protest over Covid restrictions
Some of the Netherlands’ most celebrated museums, concert halls and art centres opened their doors Wednesday to host hairdressers, nail artists and fitness instructors, in playful protest against what they see as inconsistencies in the country’s coronavirus protocols.
** How Does the FBI Art Crime Team Operate?
The transnational phenomenon of art crime spans forgeries, fakes, money laundering, illicit trafficking, illicit excavation, cultural spoliation, theft, and looting — and can be intertwined with other forms of organized crime, such as drug smuggling and arms trafficking, as well.
** Digital Exhibition Examines the Darker Side of Bananas
The banana’s dominance and ubiquity has had serious and far-reaching implications for the region, engendering exploitative labour systems, climate change, and migration.
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** Teddy Roosevelt statue removed from outside New York museum
The museum on its website said it was proud of its long association with the Roosevelt family, adding: "At the same time, the statue itself communicates a racial hierarchy the Museum and members of the public have long found disturbing."
** Native Curators Are Changing the Narrative of American Art at Museums Across the Country
As a tidal wave of racial reckoning has forced the museum industry to confront its dismal record on diversity, curators of American art are beginning to reassess galleries devoted almost exclusively to Hudson Valley landscapes and Rococo portraits by dead white men.
** Tracey Emin wants her art removed from No 10 due to PM’s behaviour
Tracey Emin has demanded that an artwork she donated to the government’s collection be removed from 10 Downing Street, saying the “current situation is shameful”.
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** Following a Trail of Ancient Ostrich Beads, Scientists Discover the World’s Oldest Social Network
Scientists have discovered what may be the world’s first social network, a chain of trade and communication that connected ancient humans across southern and eastern Africa some 50,000 years ago.
** The Life and Afterlife of an Ancient Maya Carving
A podcast of the Maya cosmos, politics, and adventure told through a carved stone lintel from the first millennium CE.
** The Louvre May Take Far-Right Politician Marine Le Pen to Court
The Louvre may be taking legal action against politician Marine Le Pen, who leads the far-right National Rally party, for filming a presidential election campaign video with the Paris museum’s iconic architecture as a backdrop.
** Where The Last Tsar Lived: The Alexander Palace Reopens
Built in 1796 by Giacomo Quarenghi for Catherine the Great for her favourite grandson, Alexander (to become Emperor Alexander I), it became the unofficial summer residence for emperors-to-be: Nicholas I and Alexander III, whose son Nicholas II was born there.
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** Researchers track down art looted by Nazis
Shortly after the war, many public museums returned artwork they had unlawfully purchased, at least in cases that were easy to determine; however, countless works of art whose provenance can't be traced still remain in museum collections today.
** If you really want to get to know Van Gogh, skip the immersive experiences and visit this Ohio museum
You’re likely to leave an immersive Van Gogh event feeling like you’ve been immersed in little more than the capabilities of a projector.
** Dinosaur ancestor of long-necked Diplodocus ran swiftly on two legs
The gigantic and slow sauropod dinosaurs like Diplodocus had small two-legged ancestors – and one, Thecodontosaurus, was quick and nimble.
** Sector reports deep concerns over impact of Omicron wave
The impact of the last couple of years have really taken their toll and it is core collections-care work that is suffering as we focus most of our attention on encouraging visitors back through the door.
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** Conference: Migration History And Museum Design
The France-based Organization for a Museum of Working-Class Housing (Association pour un Musée du Logement populaire, or AMuLoP) and the "Centre d’histoire sociale des mondes contemporains" (University of Paris 1/CNRS) invite you to participate, either in person or online, in an international symposium around museum design as it pertains to the social history of migration
** Making It Happen
Association of Independent Museums Conference
** Basics of NAGPRA
February 24, 2022, 1:00-2:30pm ET
** Social media addictions cured by timelines becoming 100% Wordle
A couple of weeks ago, little green and yellow boxes started appearing all over my timelines. At first, I thought it was a problem with my eyes, then I rang my ISP to complain there was something wrong with my router
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