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** It's Time to Tell the Unvarnished History of the U.S.
None of us are objective and it's just nice that now some of these
institutions are able to produce excellent scholarship that tells a vastly
different story from what most Americans learn.
** How the Dana Schutz Controversy Has Changed Museums Forever
The Whitney is one of a number of institutions, including the Walker Art
Center in Minneapolis and the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, that have
found themselves in the crossfire for presenting art that some have deemed
insensitive, exploitative, or even traumatizing.
** Australian Curator Confirms Oldest message in a bottle
Incredibly, an archival search in Germany found Paula's original
Meteorological Journal and there was an entry for 12 June 1886 made by the
captain, recording a drift bottle having been thrown overboard.
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** The British Museum Membercast: Transforming a gallery
The British Museum Membercast is a monthly podcast made available to 'all
studious and curious persons' with comedian, podcaster and super-fan Iszi
Lawrence presenting snippets from exclusive Members' lectures at the Museum,
artfully woven together with interviews and her own musings.
** Did stolen Caravaggio go to Switzerland?
Italian investigators are following a new lead in the hope of solving one of
the most notorious art crimes of the past 50 years: the theft of
Caravaggio's Nativity with St Francis and St Lawrence from a Baroque oratory
in Palermo, Sicily.
** Conviction Of Picasso's Electrician Thrown Out
The case stretches back to 2010, when Le Guennec travelled to Paris to ask
Claude Picasso, who manages the Picasso Administration, to authenticate the
works.
** Mona Lisa could embark on rare museum tour
Leonardo Da Vinci's masterpiece has left the famed Louvre in Paris only
briefly since the 1789 French revolution - but the country's culture
minister has said that a tour is being mulled.
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** Running the Numbers on Attendance at History Museums in the US
In attempting to gauge whether attendance at American cultural institutions
is indeed declining, many commentators often conflate "museum" with "art
museum," but art museums comprise only about 4.5% of American museums, while
history institutions, comprise about 55.5%.
** Wadsworth Atheneum Artifact Is Fake, Confessed Forger Says
At the time of the purchase, the Museum curator said that the secretary
"tells a story so tragic and deeply rooted in our country's heritage it is a
treasure to behold for art and history buffs alike.".
** Playing Sherlock: How a chair unlocked the story behind a soldier's
portrait
How a breakthrough clue, in the form of an ornate chair, led to the
intriguing story of the New Zealand Wars soldier's facial disfiguration and
reconstruction.
** Chicago's museums need more diversity at the top
A national survey included in a 2017 report by the American Alliance of
Museums reveals that whites hold 84 percent of curator, conservator,
educator and other leadership positions in American museums.
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** World's oldest tattoo art found on British Museum's Mummy
Scientists have discovered the world's oldest known tattoo art - hidden on
an ancient Egyptian mummy which has been on public display at the British
Museum for the past 100 years.
** Russian critics challenge Museum director over show of dubious Russian
avant-garde works
The recent display of works attributed to the Russian avant-garde and on
loan from Igor Toporovsky's Dieleghem Foundation to the Museum of Fine Arts
in Ghent continues to make headlines over doubts as to their authenticity.
** A Chance to Wander Museum Galleries All Alone
Museum's #MeTimeMonday initiative in Tulsa, Oklahoma gives one different
person each month a chance to wander the museum all by themselves for a
whole Monday.
** A Role for Museums in the Urban Renaissance: Reviving Skills of
Craftsmanship
How the Albright-Knox Art Gallery used its reputation, knowledge, and
community connections to create a sustainable program helping unemployed
women and men acquire skills, and jobs.
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** Details of Picasso's Plan for His Most Massive Work of Art
Now, 45 years later, researchers at University of South Florida have found
an audio reel describing the artists' plan, along with a copy of a composite
photograph and sketches.
** T. rex fossil needs a hand battling dust
Trenton's task for the day: ridding the 39-foot-long specimen of dust and
dander that accumulates on it from 5 million visitors passing through the
museum every year.
** Cleopatra's Sceptre, Shirley Temple Memorabilia, and Arnie's Severed
Head Under One Roof
The Academy's collections encompass an unparalleled stash of more than 12
million photographs, 80,000 screenplays, and 2,500 items from the fields of
costume and production design, hair and makeup, and filmmaking technology.
** The Art of Chinese Propaganda Posters
Whenever I think about that era, the scene in my mind is a red ocean of
posters, with high-volume speakers blasting fighting slogans and songs
praising Mao.
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** Museum Librarian Samples The World's Only Deep-Sea Coffee
Librarian Martin Lewis describes one of his more bizarre coffee breaks at
work - drinking Caffe L'affare Primo ground coffee that travelled where no
person has been before, 10,000 metres below the sea.
** Visitor Experience Conference 2018
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** The Project Mars Competition is Open
Join NASA's Orion and Space Launch Systems teams and SciArt Exchange in
visualizing humans venturing into deep space, to the Moon and beyond to Mars
** National Park Service's 2018 Archaeological Prospection Workshop
Marksville, Louisiana
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