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**  400 Viking objects stolen in Norway museum heist

If the stolen objects are not returned, this is by far the most terrible
event in the 200 years of Norwegian museum history.

 

**  Can high culture make you sick?

Museum staffers tend to clean museum interactive screens daily at best,
although researchers have found that digital screens may harbour more
bacteria than toilet seats.

 

**  It’s a Diverse City, but Most Big Museum Boards Are Strikingly White

Mayor Bill de Blasio gave New York’s museums and arts groups an ultimatum
last month: Take steps to make your staff and leadership more diverse, or
risk losing part of your city funding. 

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**  Bizarre Pollock forgery scam targets unwary collectors in the US

IFAR has uncovered a cache of poorly executed fakes supposedly once owned by
a wealthy German immigrant who went mad and left the art to his servants—but
no trace in official records. 

 

**  When Life Gives You Lemons

New research from Tel Aviv University reveals that citrons and lemons were
clear status symbols for the ancient Roman ruling elite and plots the route
and evolution of the citrus trade in the ancient Mediterranean. 

 

**  X-Rays Reveal Details of Portrait Once Hidden Under Vesuvius’ Ash

The artistry behind an early Roman portrait that went virtually unnoticed
for centuries has been uncovered by a new, non-invasive X-ray fluorescence
device.

 

**  British Museum Blog - Solar eclipses, then and now

Although people remain separated by beliefs today as much as ever before, we
share the basic human curiosity about our place in the universe and a thirst
for knowledge.

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**  Van Gogh Museum's life-sized interactive 3D reproduction of world-famous
Almond Blossom

By focusing on this painting, the Van Gogh Museum pays homage to its
founder: Van Gogh painted Almond Blossom to mark the birth of his nephew
(the son of his brother, Theo van Gogh), who ultimately went on to establish
the Van Gogh Museum.

 

**  Victorian Giants: The Birth of Art Photography

The National Portrait Gallery is to stage an exhibition of photographs by
four of the most celebrated figures in art photography, including previously
unseen works and a notorious photomontage.

 

**  Donald Trump Cares About Irreplaceable Objects, Except When He Doesn’t

For someone so concerned with “beautiful statues,” Trump seems to have
forgotten his own track record with historic artifacts.

 

**  Is It Time for a Woman to Run the Metropolitan Museum?

If you’ve checked your museum job listings lately, you know that there’s an
opening at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art—and it’s right at the top
of the org chart 

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**  Ancient Earthquake Turned Mosaic Workshop into Time Capsule

An earthquake-toppled house in the ancient city of Jerash is providing
archaeologists with clues on how artisans constructed mosaics during the
eighth century.

 

**  Man who made £30,000 faking Norman Cornish artwork told to repay £1

A price on a receipt he claimed was from the 1960s was also spotted to be in
decimal pounds and pence, rather than pounds and shillings, and a telephone
number he used was too long.

 

**  How Jeff Koons’s ‘Banality’ Established Current Copyright Law For
Artists

Parody would not be allowed as a blanket rationalization for an entire genre
of art that commented on broad cultural and societal concepts. 

 

**  Leonardo da Vinci's forgotten musical invention has been created for the
first time

It looks like a harpsichord and has a set of strings, but rather than being
plucked, the strings press against rotating wheels covered in horse hair –
the same mechanism that produces sound in string instruments.

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**  John Constable 'fake' sold for £35,000 is £2m original

An art dealer and TV presenter has spoken of his "utter and raw delight" on
discovering a painting once deemed a fake was, in fact, worth £2m.

 

**  Finland's Lenin Museum

During the mid-20th century, a handful of museums dedicated to Vladimir
Lenin could be seen around Europe, but the only permanent Lenin museum that
remains today is the one in Tampere, Finland.

 

**  Museum visitors' photo stunt damages 800-year-old coffin

Family lifted child over barrier at Essex priory museum, leading to coffin
falling off stand, then left without reporting damage.

 

**  In Marrakesh, a New Museum Celebrates Yves Saint Laurent

Yves Saint Laurent had many muses, but only one Marrakesh, the city where he
discovered light and colour, draping and caftans. 

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**  Classic horror art takes centre stage

Halloween in Salem has kicked off early, thanks to an organization that has
historically avoided the Haunted Happenings frenzy: the Peabody Essex
Museum.

 

**  Five Ways To Make Your Museum And Business More Instagram Friendly

With more than 700 million monthly active users, businesses are paying more
attention to Instagram

 

**  Canadian War Museum looks back at Dieppe Raid on battle’s 75th
anniversary

Seventy-five years after the Dieppe Raid

 

**  The Mountain-Plains Museum Association's 2017 Conference

October 15-19, 2017 in Denver CO.

 

**  This Week's Horoscopes

Gemini - You were just being clever, if a bit arch, when you said “Either
this wallpaper goes or I do,” but the wallpaper will use its powerful social
connections to have you ostracized from polite society


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