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** What Do Museums Represent in the 21st Century?
Museums are the institutional embodiment of the historical practice that to the victor go the spoils; more recently, the return of select artefacts is intended to set things right, but it’s complicated
** A Conversation With the Women Who Curate New York’s Museums
At a time when museums are facing numerous challenges — including the pandemic fallout and demands for greater diversity — leaders at those institutions find themselves grappling with how to chart a new future without completely jettisoning the past.
** Celtic gold coins worth ‘several million euros’ stolen from German museum
Thieves have stolen a hoard of Celtic coins worth several million euros from a German museum after apparently disrupting local telephone and internet connections.
** How audience research helped shape the Brunel Museum Reinvented Project
At the heart of the three-year lottery-funded Brunel Museum Reinvented project was a strong desire to make sure they were meeting the needs of the communities around them.
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** Parisian Gallery’s Owners Sentenced to Jail After Stolen Picasso Scandal
The owners of the Paris gallery Belle et Belle were sentenced to prison and barred from dealing art for five years after a judge in France found them guilty of offering dozens of stolen Picasso prints and drawings.
** Drought Reveals Rare American Lion Fossil in Dried Up Mississippi River
The big cats prowled throughout North America during the Pleistocene, first appearing at least 340,000 years ago, but fossilized evidence of their existence in the eastern United States is extremely rare.
** Soot, fires and endless paperwork: litigation explodes across the art world
The episode, too, coincides with increased litigation across the art world, including copyright claims over “fair use” of imagery, provenance, the sale of museum collections or “deaccessioning”, alongside fraud, a crackdown on artefact looting and forgery.
** Computer says there is a 80.58% probability painting is a real Renoir
Swiss company uses algorithm to judge whether contested Portrait de femme (Gabrielle) is genuinely by French artist.
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** The Other Climate-Change Art Protest
In posing a false choice between art and the environment, the soup protesters backed themselves into a corner, attracting support from neither art lovers nor climate-movement sympathizers.
** Nottingham Castle closes its doors a year after £33m revamp
Nottingham Castle has closed its doors to the public after the trust that runs it fell into liquidation, a year after a £33m revamp of the site failed to bring in expected visitor numbers.
** A museum 2,300 years in the making
When the International African American Museum opens in January in Charleston, South Carolina, it will tell the story of slavery in the US – going all the way back to 300 BCE.
** Protesters In Iran Torch Khomeini’s Museum
In Khomein, the birthplace of Ayatollah Khomeini, people attacked and torched his family house which was turned into a museum in recent years, an unprecedented act of defiance that became a sensation on Persian social media.
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** Ukrainian forces win back Kherson region—but Russia has reportedly looted its art collection
Russian occupying forces in the illegally annexed region engaged in organised mass looting of art from the Oleksiy Shovkunenko Kherson Art Museum and has taken them to Simferopol in Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014
** Museum Security in Oslo Thwarted Two Activists Attempting to Glue Themselves to Edvard Munch’s ‘The Scream’
As activists increasingly target artworks in stunts aimed at drawing attention to the climate emergency, museums have started to up their security measures to protect their collections.
** Christie’s Pulls T. Rex From Auction, Citing Need for ‘Further Study’
Questions about the fossil were raised in recent weeks, when a lawyer for the Black Hills Institute of Geological Research, a fossil company in South Dakota, reached out to Christie’s about similarities between Shen and another T. rex skeleton, named Stan, which Christie’s had sold in 2020.
** Canada's oldest-known European gold coin found on Newfoundland beach
A single gold coin found in the south of Newfoundland, Canada is generating new questions about the country’s history and when the first Europeans actually landed in North America.
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** The Collections Management Policy Toolkit
A project of the Conservation Centre for Art and Historic Artifacts (CCAHA) with funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Collections Management Policy Toolkit (CMPToolkit) is a free online tool that allows you to build a custom Collections Management Policy for your institution.
** Is Carpaccio’s Paint as Red as Raw Meat?
Did you know that beef carpaccio is named after the artist? The dark reds in Vittore Carpaccio’s paintings may have inspired the dish of delicately sliced raw beef on the appetizer menu of your favourite Italian restaurant.
** An Argument for Returning the Benin Bronzes at Harvard
There are currently two bronzes in the Harvard Art Museum and 45 in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.
** Could a SS officer's letter uncover another lost art treasure
Reportedly, the letter gives reference to a long-lost 16th-century painting, called the Portrait of a Young Man, which was done by Italian artist Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino - who is more commonly known as Raphael.
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** How to support World Toilet Day this year
Resources to help public attractions maximise the accessibility of their toilets.
** Prague – Heritages. Past and Present - Built and Social
A Conference on Culture, History, Art and Design
** Light from Tate: 1700s to Now
Explore the startling beauty and resonance of light in Light from Tate: 1700s to Now, a major exhibition exclusive to Auckland Art Gallery.
** Scientists urged to divert attention away from space exploration to create pillow that stays cool all night
Scientists have been urged to put their brainpower to something more critical than the long-term survival of the human race and to solve the mystery of the pillow that won’t stay cool during the night
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