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** Royal B.C. Museum apologizes after 2017 carving declared ancient Indigenous artefact
The museum clung to that ancient-origin story until Tuesday, when staff met with the local carver in the museum's underground loading dock and forklifted the stone into the back of his car to finally take home.
** The rise of the skills-based curator
Subject-specialist and skills-specialist curators both have a role in museums, and there are overlaps between them.
** 5 Ways Museums Can Engage Generation Z
Technically speaking, Generation Z refers to those of us born between the late 1990s and early 2010s, but the term comes with a lot of extra ideas and stereotypes.
** $70 Million in Art at MoMA to Be Sold to Extend Museum’s Digital Reach
Masterpieces from CBS founder William Paley’s museum trove are heading to Sotheby’s this fall, as MoMA seeks to expand its online presence and possibly buy more digital art.
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** Scientists Discover That a Virtual Museum Trip Can Improve Your Physical, Mental, and Social Health
Researchers from Canada and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) collaborated to look at the advantages of conducting weekly virtual visits over the course of three months.
** V&A likely to return looted Asante gold treasures to Ghana
Although international attention is now focused on the restitution of Benin bronzes to Nigeria from European and American collections, items from the Asante kingdom are arguably of equal significance.
** How can live art be held in museum collections? Tate conference to share its conclusions
An online conference backed by a research project will explore how institutions can care for time-based, live and organic art.
** Flooded with AI-generated images, some art communities ban them completely
Confronted with an overwhelming amount of artificial-intelligence-generated artwork flooding in, some online art communities have taken dramatic steps to ban or curb its presence on their sites.
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** What would you ‘ask a museum’?
What was known as ‘Ask a Curator’ day, has taken a sideways shift this year – perhaps in part to the traction around rethinking collecting institutions globally.
** The Story Behind Legendary Dealer Doug Chrismas’s Incredible Fall From Grace, Ahead of His Trial
How decades of allegations of failure to pay and disappearing artworks finally escalated to the current money laundering and embezzlement charges, speaks to the opacity of the art market and the millions of dollars sloshing around in it.
** Rare $1 M. Coin Minted by Jews Revolting under Roman Rule Returns to Israel
A rare silver quarter shekel, valued up to $1 million, was returned to Israel by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office.
** A Small Community in Nepal Wants Its Stolen God Back
Why should the people of Pharping celebrate their sacred festival with a replica of a 400-year-old idol while the original clearly sits in the collection of a Singapore museum?
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** Museum employee tracks down missing photograph of 9/11 victim
At the 9/11 Memorial and Museum in New York City, two photos of the near 3,000 victims were missing, prompting a museum employee to track down one of the unaccounted faces.
** Greek Government's Museum bill would open can of worms
This is supposed to give the museums autonomy and free them from bureaucratic entanglements; what has been leaked about the bill justifies the concern that it opens a can of worms.
** An Iowa Museum Renowned for Its Pollock Emerges From a Flood With a More Inclusive Mission
At the newly opened Stanley Museum, formerly the University of Iowa Museum of Art, White artists like Jackson Pollock and Grant Wood are no longer the focus of its collection.
** A New Dinosaur is Discovered in Germany — Introducing the Tuebingosaurus
The newly named Tuebingosaurus maierfritzorum lived between 203 to 211 million years ago in the mountainous Swabian Alb region of southwest Germany.
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** The Netherlands Repatriates 343 Ceramics to Panama
Researchers will now get to work learning more about the objects’ history and significance so they can eventually go on display at the Museo Antropológico Reina Torres de Araúz.
** Transit workers ignored by 9/11 museum are angry
Transit workers who laboured at Ground Zero say they were erased from the history of the valiant rescue and recovery effort by the National September 11th Memorial and Museum.
** Culprit behind mass extinction identified, motive remains unknown
About 183 million years ago tremendous volcanic eruptions occurred and lava deposits rivalling the size of continents covered Earth’s surface, causing mass extinctions and changing the ocean’s chemistry and global climates.
** Which petrel is this? A tale of polar explorers and a little seabird’s name
Te Papa's Curator Vertebrates Alan Tennyson and the Department of Conservation’s Johannes Fischer, published a scientific paper that clarified the identity of a common sub Antarctic seabird.
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** Zipp by Frances Hodgkins
Christchurch Art Gallery, Friday 28 October 2022 / 12pm
** Museums pay tribute following death of Queen Elizabeth II
Official guidance published for national mourning period.
** Applications Now Open for Preservation Needs Assessment and Risk Assessment Programs
CCAHA is pleased to announce that, thanks to renewed and expanded grant funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), we are able to offer a limited number of subsidized assessments. These assessments, valued at over $5,000 each, will be offered for a significantly discounted cost to qualifying institutions.
** Disney Wins Emmy For Best Profits
To every little boy and girl out there watching, let this Emmy serve as proof that you, too, can grow up to enrich shareholders by posting quarterly earnings reports with really big numbers on them.
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