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**  Increasingly, Women Are Running the World’s Great Museums

From the Louvre to the Vatican Museums and the National Gallery of Art, female directors are taking over from men.

**  Where did the Metropolitan Museum of Art get its Native American objects?

A ProPublica review of records the museum has posted online found that only 15% of the 139 works donated or loaned by the Dikers over the years have solid or complete ownership histories, with some lacking any provenance at all.

**  Inside The Karl Lagerfeld Exhibition

If you’re not a fashion insider, it just feels like a bunch of old dusty dresses propped up on white mannequins, and as a result, feels a bit lifeless.

**  Ancient Romans dropped their bling down the drain, too

Down the drain is where British archaeologists recently discovered 36 artfully engraved semiprecious stones, in an ancient bathhouse at the site of a Roman fort near Hadrian’s Wall in Carlisle, England.

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**  Russian air attack on museum kills two

Ukrainian officials said that the Russian military used S-300 air defence missiles to attack Kupiansk in the Kharkiv region, hitting the museum of local history in the town centre.

**  Imperial War Museum to exhibit conflicting perspectives on Troubles

Visitors to the London museum will hear often contradictory testimonies from different players – paramilitaries, police, soldiers and civilians – collected by the lead exhibition curator over five years.

**  What did the critics who trashed Georgia O’Keeffe have in common? See if you can guess

William Feaver of the Observer proclaimed that O’Keeffe’s paintings “made good monthly images on calendars”, while Hilton Kramer’s review in the Sunday Telegraph called her “grossly overrated”.

**  When Deadly Steamboat Races Enthralled America

Deaths were all too common in steamboat racing and passengers and crew were scalded or blown to pieces in boiler explosions; burned alive in fires; or forced to take their chances in the water, where they often drowned.

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**  Picasso’s Cutouts

He was sketching every sculpture from pieces of paper and cardboard – this is a series he created in the late 1950s focusing on human silhouettes.

**  The greatest bird artist you’ve never heard of

Unlike Audubon he never owned slaves, and his life’s project to document American birds, an effort to outdo Audubon that began in the 1890s and continued into the 1920s, was celebrated in its day

**  Florida principal ousted over ‘David’ images gets to see the real thing

Hope Carrasquilla stood in front of the sculpture at the Galleria dell’Accademia di Firenze, a guest of the museum’s director and an accidental participant in a debate about nudity in art that has raged for centuries.

**  Arts Grant makers Must Change Their Ways

Here are nine ways art funders and philanthropies can strengthen their support of artists.

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**  ‘A Flintstone cave made by pranksters’: New York’s audacious new museum wing

The concrete porridge surfaces are actually “Shotcrete”, a substance created 110 years ago, rather neatly, by the inventor Carl Akeley, who was also the skilled taxidermist who shot and brought the gorillas back from Africa that adorn one of the museum’s most dramatic diorama.

**  The Brauer Museum’s $20 Million Deaccessioning Plan Has Hit Another Snag: A Lawsuit From Its Founding Director

The founding director of Valparaiso University’s Brauer Museum of Art has filed a lawsuit against the school over a controversial plan to deaccession several prized works from the institution’s collection.

**  Amber preserves beetles that ate dinosaur feathers 105 million years ago

The rare find provides a clear example of the interaction between vertebrates and arthropods during the Cretaceous period.

**  ‘We’re trying to make a ruckus and that might annoy some people’

The duo are among what remains of a small cohort of people of colour to have held leadership roles in UK museums, while their job-share remains one of the only such examples at CEO level in the sector.

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**  The forgotten art of Hollywood backdrops

The Boca Raton Museum succeeds where the big beasts in LA and New York have failed.

**  Non-profits Stick to Their Tweets Even as They Worry That Elon Musk’s Twitter Is Toxic

Although there has not been a mass exodus from the site, groups are using Twitter less frequently and investing more time and resources on LinkedIn and Instagram, according to non-profit leaders and communications experts.

**  Museums join forces to highlight biodiversity loss

More than 500 museums took part in activities last weekend to highlight the UK’s biodiversity loss through the Wild Escape campaign.

**  Banana drama: ‘hungry’ South Korean student eats $120,000 artwork

Noh Huyn-soo was filmed brazenly removing the banana, which was duct-taped on to a wall at the Leeum Museum of Art in Seoul, unpeeling it and eating it in front of stunned onlookers.

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**  Energy Bills Discount Scheme

The new Energy Bills Discount Scheme portal is now open for UK museums, libraries and historic houses to apply for the higher level of support.

**  David C. and Thelma G. Driskell Award for Creative Excellence Award

The University of Maryland-College Park's David C. Driskell Centre is currently accepting applications for the David C. and Thelma G. Driskell Award for Creative Excellence Award.

**  Arthur Boyd: The Life of Saint Francis

The David Roche Foundation, Adelaide

**  This Week's Horoscopes

Libra: This week, Libra, as you begin to communicate with pigeons on a profound level, understand that it’s okay to embrace your inner bird whisperer, just as long as you don’t develop an irresistible urge to perch on rooftops. Read the full (humorous) weekly horoscopes here.
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