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** British Museum display focuses on rock art
The display draws on The African Rock Art Image Project which has catalogued
and uploaded more than 20,000 images into the Museum's collections, and
presents the museum's understanding of San|Bushmen material culture and
belief systems
** Greece's National Archaeological Museum's 'Odyssey' Exhibition
What do the Antikythera Mechanism, Nestor's golden cup and the marble statue
of an athlete from Delos all have in common? The answer is that they are all
found in the collections of the National Archaeological Museum in Athens
** How the National Gallery capitalised on and missed opportunities to
acquire works by Caravaggio
The National Gallery is very fortunate in having three paintings by
Caravaggio in its collection, one from each of the distinct phases in the
artist's career, but the circumstances of their acquisition reveal that
their arrival in Trafalgar Square was unplanned and fortuitous
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** Exhibition of imperial life opens at Beijing Capital Museum
The Hall of Mental Cultivation inside Beijing's Forbidden City used to serve
as an emperors' residence during the Qing dynasty, China's last imperial
dynasty
** New museums: the rise of cryptic cathedrals of the cosmos
The growth is not unpredictable but is certainly divergent, as if curators
and museum directors were competing as much as artists in trying to pre-empt
the zeitgeist
** Grunts and Grapples: The stars who made wrestling great in Britain
Just before the football scores, on the then-new station ITV from 1955,
wrestling heralded a new teatime age of grunting beefcakes being scolded by
grannies and stylised athleticism
** Major group show of Abstract Expressionism in Europe
Works by Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline and
other artists are being exhibited together for the first time in 57 years
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** Opposition to Galileo was scientific, not just religious
1614, when the telescope was new technology, a young man in Germany
published a book filled with illustrations of the exciting new things being
discovered telescopically: moons circling Jupiter, moon-like phases of
Venus, spots on the Sun, the rough and cratered lunar surface
** Former Director Of The Rijksmuseum Quits Post at New Museum After 2
Months
He began his job at the Museum Voorlinden on July 3, going from overseeing a
world-class public institution with more than one million works of art to
heading a museum presenting 10,000
** Science Suggests Your Brain Responds to Art Differently Than Real Life
Inspired by a 200-year-old German theory, scientists at Rotterdam's Erasmus
University set out to measure how emotional responses varied to objects and
images when subjects were told they were observing art
** How did two Chinese skeletons find their way into a Roman cemetery in
London?
A collection of seemingly unremarkable bones discovered in a Roman cemetery
in London has provided new insights into the links between the Roman Empire
and Imperial China
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** The Eureka, The 19th-Century Proto-Computer That Generated Latin Poetry
In July 1845, British curiosity-seekers headed to London's Egyptian Hall to
try out the novelty of the summer; for the price of one shilling, they could
stand in front of a wooden bureau, pull a lever, and look behind a panel
where six drums, bristling with metal spokes, revolved
** Metropolitan Museum of Art Lays Off 34 Employees
The Met said that the layoffs do not include any curators or conservators
and bring to a close the current phase of its financial restructuring
process
** New Museum in Lisbon Pushes the Barriers of Art, Architecture and Light
The museum has been designed so people can walk, or sit, before, behind,
between, above and below it, its steel structure sheathed in a skin of
seamless tiles designed to make the most of that Portuguese sunlight
** Rudd's lost plan for a national museum of Indigenous Australians
Behind the scenes, the then prime minister instructed bureaucrats in 2009 to
begin discussions for a landmark museum dedicated to Australia's Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islanders, to be built in Canberra's parliamentary
triangle
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** Iraqi dictator's palace becomes museum
Iraq opened a new antiquities museum in the southern city of Basra on
Tuesday with pottery, coins and other artifacts dating back more than 2,000
years
** Why Free Museums Matter
Many institutions struggle to shed the perception that they're inscrutable
and imposing, and that visitors need to wield a specialized, rarefied
knowledge to earn entry
** How Cats Conquered the World (and a Few Viking Ships)
Thousands of years before cats came to dominate Internet culture, they swept
through ancient Eurasia and Africa carried by early farmers, ancient
mariners and even Vikings, finds the first large-scale look at ancient-cat
DNA
** As Flagship Returns Museum Aims to Right Its Course
A museum that's all about ships: Wavertree, the South Street Seaport
Museum's 1885 flagship, will sail into port after a $13 million restoration
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** New Clues About Everyday Life in Ancient Rome
Summer digs at Hadrian's villa in Italy are 'opening a window' on the
dynamics of a centre of power in the second century
** Symposium: Hungry eyes
Featuring curators working with some of Australia's most significant print
collections
** International Symposium on Evaluating Digital Cultural Resources (EDCR
2016)
Scottish Network on Digital Cultural Resources Evaluation
** Global Issues in University Museums and Collections: Objects, Ideas,
Ideologies, People
17th Annual UMAC Conference
** This Week's Horoscopes
Taurus - Try as you might, you'll find yourself completely unable to escape
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