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** Cultural institutions rethink Russian connections
The cultural boycott of Russia is extending across Europe as more institutions sever ties with the country or rethink how the Russian and Ukrainian cultures are represented in their collections.
** ‘We got a kick out of it’: art forgers reveal secrets of paintings that fooled experts
Wolfgang Beltracchi and his wife Helene sold fake paintings for millions before some inauthentic white paint led to their capture.
** Man Finds Napoleon Memorabilia Stolen in Museum Heist — on eBay
For devotees of rummage sales, vintage shops, and eBay, the dream is clear; make a score worthy of an emotional shock take on Antiques Roadshow.
** World’s Galleries and Museums Rally to Preserve 200,000 Acres of Peruvian Rainforest
Some of the art world’s biggest galleries and museums, including David Zwirner, Hauser & Wirth, and the Guggenheim in New York, have teamed up to preserve 200,000 acres of endangered rainforest in Peru.
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** A Man Pulled Some Unusual Art From a Dumpster That May Be Worth a Scary Amount
Four and a half years ago, a mechanic pulled a trove of unidentified artworks from a Connecticut Dumpster, hoping to use them for Halloween decorations.
** Centuries-old human remains to be transferred to Iranian museum displays
Two centuries-old skeletons recently discovered in a mine in Ardestan county, are planned to go on display at the Museum of History and Civilization of Zavareh.
** Why So Many Superheroes Are Orphans
A new exhibition at London’s Foundling Museum explores how growing up without birth parents shapes comic book characters.
** Huge Veronese gifted to town museum ‘may never be found’
The painting 'Veronese’s Pool of Bethesda' was last seen at the Arbuthnot Museum in Peterhead in the 1900s.
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** Breadfruit, cherries and drag: this is a lip-smacking Turner prize shortlist
The ongoing environmental crisis and our relationships to the natural world are, in different ways, persistent themes across the shortlist, as are questions of identity and belonging.
** An Odd, But Often Stunning Attempt To Create A ‘More Inclusive’ Museum
After a four-year wait and a $105 million expansion, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego’s reopening is a study in the changing shape of institutions.
** Largest-ever repatriation of cultural artefacts from a Scottish museum given green light
Glasgow City Council has voted to return a number of cultural artefacts from its museum collections, including the repatriation of seven Indian antiquities & Benin bronzes, in a move which is the first of its kind from a UK museum.
** An introduction to Feminine power
The British Museum’s upcoming exhibition Feminine power: the divine to the demonic takes you on a journey through 5,000 years of belief in female spiritual beings.
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** Germany Reckons With Wagner: Cultural Jewel, or National Shame?
A new exhibition at the country’s national history museum examines the strong feelings stirred by its most famous 19th-century composer.
** Finland Returns $46 M. In Detained Artwork to Russia, as France Continues To Hold Russian Paintings
The paintings and sculptures, valued at 42 million euros ($46 million), had been on loan from Russian museums to institutions in Italy and Japan.
** Unlike Us, Ancient Societies Knew What to Do With Their Outdated Monuments
If we don’t want our public monuments to remain in storage ready for redeployment, like some sort of North American Strategic Racism Reserve, maybe we need to take tips from the Mesopotamians on how to lay a statue to rest for good.
** Museums turn to immersive tech to preserve the stories of aging Holocaust survivors
He was too fragile to make a trip to Europe so the VR film based on his testimony used green screens to put him in some of the places he describes, such as the men's concentration camp barracks and the loading docks at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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** Frida Kahlo at home: Intimate photos from the artist’s personal collection
Tucked at the centre of the exhibition are perhaps the most intimate and revealing images of Kahlo, showing her painting in bed with an inventive supine easel over her, her chin strapped to a contraption that helped elongate her spine.
** Scientists find fossil from dinosaur that died the day the asteroid hit
Scientists believe they have discovered a fossilized time capsule from the exact day when Earth transformed from being a verdant, dinosaur-ridden world to a soot-covered apocalyptic hellscape.
** St Barbe Museum provides support to Ukrainian refugees
St Barbe Museum in Lymington, in the New Forest district of Hampshire, has set up a new team of volunteers to provide support and to create a network to help refugees arriving from war-torn Ukraine.
** Did Bronze Age Britons use gold as currency?
Until recently, though, only a limited number of gold artefacts from the British Bronze Age had been subject to metrological analysis.
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** Tools for the Analysis of Collection Environments: Lessons Learned and Future Development
This publication explores the perspectives of collection care professionals, educators, engineers, and computer scientists on data analysis and presents overviews of data analysis and visualization techniques, and existing T and RH analysis tools.
** ICOM Call for Donations to Support Museums and Museum Professionals in Ukraine
Today, given the many offers of direct aid received, a new dimension to the mutual assistance that ICOM members, and museums in general, can provide is needed. That is why ICOM has decided to open a call for donations, through which these offers of support can be coordinated at international level.
** Mobster Excited For Surprise Trip To Secluded Lake With His 3 Best Buds
Though it seemed a little cold for it, Salvatore “Legs” Mancini added that he had brought along his trunks, because his three buds had hinted that he might be going for a swim
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