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** To Make Blockbuster Shows, Museums Are Turning to Focus Groups
Last January, 14 members of the British public entered a wood-paneled room in the back of the British Museum for a secret presentation
** Rubin Museum, Haven for Asian Art, to Close After 20 Years
It is the first major art museum in New York to close within recent memory. It said it would now focus on traveling exhibitions and long-term loans.
** Politicians and museums grapple over the future of Kwer’ata Re’esu
Disagreement centred over whether the painting, looted in 1868 and later sold to a private collector in Portugal, should be bought by the government and returned to Ethiopia.
** Munich Museum Alters Title of Painting Depicting Native Americans, Spurring Pushback
"I am against adapting historical works to the current spirit of the times; intervening in the work of an important artist who can no longer defend himself borders on censorship".
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** Los Angeles museum repatriates Asante artefacts to Ghana
Seven handcrafted Asante objects have just travelled halfway around the globe to be returned, 150 years later, to the family of their original owners in Kumasi, Ghana.
** Museum staff experience a subantarctic expedition
Eleven researchers and crew on the Strannik 2023 Auckland Island Expedition journeyed to the Auckland Islands to undertake botanical field work over four weeks on the main Auckland Island.
** ‘Stolen and disrespected’: museum inters 200-year-old remains of Black Philadelphians
Bones had been used to provide disproven scientific justification for white supremacy before being housed in the Penn Museum.
** 10 Surprising Facts About Leonardo da Vinci’s “Ginevra de’ Benci”
It is the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas and played a big role in the artistic evolution of this Italian Renaissance genius.
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** Thief Who Stole Dorothy’s Ruby Slippers Avoids Prison
Martin broke into the museum and used a hammer to shatter the glass surrounding the slippers.
** Miami’s Rubell Museum to Stage Plays Inspired By Its Collection
Visitors checking out Miami’s Rubell Museum in the coming weeks can take in its vast collection of contemporary art as well as a series of immersive theatrical experiences.
** Two Into One Won't Go?
The director's role at the internationally renowned Govett-Brewster Art Gallery and Len Lye Centre will be axed - as well as about 12 full-time equivalent jobs across New Plymouth's cultural institutions - if a proposed restructure is adopted.
** How throwing soup at the Mona Lisa can help fight climate change
Objections to acts of climate activism such as the latest food fight at the Louvre are understandable but might miss the point; protesters’ perceived madness is indeed method.
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** Can AI Be Better at Art History Than Us?
Artificial Intelligence may efficiently sort images but loses out to a humanistic approach.
** A fossilized tree that Dr. Seuss might have dreamed up
Named Sanfordiacaulis densifolia, the tree had a 6-inch diameter with a nearly 10-foot-tall trunk composed not of wood, but of vascular plant material, like ferns.
** What a relief! Revealing Roman craftsmanship
British Museum Conservator Kathryn Oliver reveals how high-tech lasers can put us in direct touch with Roman makers' marks – and uncover the glorious detail of the turning point in a battle.
** These Paintings Reveal How the Dutch Adapted to Extreme Weather During the Little Ice Age
Artists like Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Hendrick Avercamp documented locals’ resilience in the face of freezing winters and food shortages.
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** Appalling: fake scientific papers push research credibility to crisis point
Last year, 10,000 sham papers had to be retracted by academic journals, but experts think this is just the tip of the iceberg.
** Recovered stolen gems to go on display at British Museum
The majority of the objects believed to have been stolen were classical gems and gold jewellery dating from the ancient Mediterranean world.
** Scientists Build a Robot Dinosaur to Probe the Mystery of Tiny Wings
Robopteryx—a makeshift dinosaur with training wheels—offers clues to the purpose of prehistoric proto-wings, which are too small to have powered flight.
** Museum chief brands Florence a ‘prostitute’ over tourist numbers
The director of the Galleria dell’Accademia sparks outrage in remarks about capital city of Tuscan region being ‘crushed by tourism’.
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** AIM Pilgrim Trust conservation grants are open for applications
Applications for collections care audits, collections care grants and remedial conservation grants are now open
** Dreaming of AI: How the Munch Museum Uses AI
In Conservation, Collection Management, and in Developing New Audience Experiences.
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