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** Investigators, Citing Looting, Have Seized 27 Antiquities From the Met
Investigators in New York have seized 27 ancient artefacts valued at more than $13 million from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, asserting that the objects, acquired to showcase the glories of ancient Rome, Greece and Egypt, had all been looted.
** Scientists Are Training A.I. to Reconstruct Long-Lost Underpaintings by Artists
An underpainting of two male wrestlers discovered via X-ray beneath a still life by Vincent Van Gogh has been reconstructed into a work in its own right by artificial intelligence.
** Paul Allen’s Dicey “Legacy”: From Museum Exposure to Private Ownership?
Paul Allen is not the first major collector courted by the Seattle Art Museum whose works headed to the auction block, rather than to the museum’s permanent collection galleries.
** German museums latest to be implicated in far-reaching criminal investigation into antiquities trafficking
Several public museums and universities in Germany have become embroiled in criminal investigations into the widespread trafficking of Middle Eastern antiquities, which have seen the indictment of seven dealers, collectors and curators in Paris.
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** The History of the Lunch Box
From a working man’s utility product to a back-to-school fashion statement, lunch boxes have evolved with technology and pop culture.
** ICOM Special Grants: Support to Museums and Museum Professionals in/from Ukraine
ICOM is offering a Special Grants round in response to the war in Ukraine and its impacts on neighbouring countries; it is open to those countries which are supporting, or wanting to support, Ukrainian museums and museum professionals
** How Millet’s Man with a Hoe Survived the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, there has been much discussion in the museum world about art’s social function during times of crisis, and I am reminded of disastrous moments in our past when art managed, almost miraculously, to provide a measure of comfort and good news.
** A $20 million makeover turned a D.C. school into a modern art museum
On a recent, steamy summer morning, the Rubells spoke — often over each other, in the way long-married couples do — about their passion for contemporary art, their belief in its power to change hearts and minds, and their instinctive, if unusual, approach to collecting and curating.
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** The evolution of museums - returning what was taken
Stolen, traded for cheap or otherwise taken, the 'great' European museums are replete with items brought from far flung seas; with the tides now changing, how do the original caretakers go about bringing their treasures home?
** Philadelphia Museum Workers Vote to Strike after Accusing Leadership of Union-Busting
Among the issues that the workers are seeking to negotiate are health care, paid parental leave, wages, and the use of temporary and fixed-term employees.
** Museums in the US and Europe are in blockbuster mode
If you can stomach the carbon emissions, Europe’s museums will return to blockbuster mode after the pandemic’s visitor numbers and logistical nits.
** Massive 3,000-Year-Old Mythical Bronze Creature Unearthed in China
The massive animal has a sacred tree engraved on its chest and a horn on its head with a bronze statue of a man standing on it.
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** ‘Bone Shaker’ Days In Nelson
Only a limited number of velocipedes, also known as ‘bone shakers’, remain in museums and private collections around the world – and Nelson is home to two of them, which are part of historic collections at both the Nelson Provincial Museum and Founders Heritage Park.
** Museum security guard sentenced for doodling on painting
Lawyers for Aleksandr Vasiliev pleaded with the Moscow museum to drop charges, noting their widower client was a veteran of the Afghan and Chechen wars – at the latter of which he had sustained head injuries – and was still recovering from the murder of his son eight years ago.
** 14 recent discoveries that have changed the way we think about dinosaurs
Here are 14 things that we've learned through a slew of recent reports shedding new light on their biology, their lives, and the world around them.
** Archaeologists Call on UNESCO to Protect the Hagia Sophia
In recent years, the archaeologists claim, the historic site’s managers have allowed an “uncontrolled flow of visitors” to enter the building unchecked, without regard for the facility’s artistic and historical significance.
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** ArtScience Museum turns mental health colourful in new exhibit
Exhibition organizers said the themes presented came from ongoing conversations with the younger generation struggling with mental health and were supported by experts who helped explore the topics more deeply.
** The representation of Japan’s colonial history in museums and public spaces
As a member of the Ainu diaspora, I am slowly discovering the hidden stories of the artefacts and envisioning how I can retell past stories, and connect them to the present life and to our future.
** How the Speed Art Museum learned to listen in the midst of a community tragedy
Taking up the charge of its nearly 100-year history as the oldest and largest art museum in Kentucky, the Speed Art Museum in Louisville has made its mission to create opportunities for the entire community to connect deeply and personally with art.
** Revamped Museum of Islamic Art in Doha to reopen with more than 1,000 new objects
One of the most important museums in the Middle East, the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) in Doha, is due to reopen on 5 October following the “reimagination and reinstallation of its permanent collection galleries”.
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** The Henry Luce Foundation 40th Anniversary
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** Scientists Find Dolphins Only Other Mammals That Jet-Ski For Pleasure
Discovering an astonishing similarity between human and animal behaviour, a study published Friday by zoologists at Mount Holyoke College found that dolphins are the only other species of mammal that jet-skis for pleasure.
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