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** ‘Ukraine’s heritage is under direct attack’: why Russia is looting the country’s museums
Autocratic leaders seizing art as a means to rewriting a nation’s cultural history and advance their interests is nothing new: in 1937, Hitler confiscated 17,000 works of art from more than 100 German museums in less than a month.
** Queen Elizabeth II and the British Museum
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has visited the British Museum no less than 15 times, both before and during her 70-year reign; we take a trip into the archives and find out what happened when Her Majesty came to visit.
** Space shuttle Endeavour is getting its own grand museum in L.A., displayed in launch position
Astronauts have cheered the Science Centre for designing the exhibit in such a way that will enable members of the public to see the last space shuttle ever built in a way relatively few have seen before.
** Natural History Museum plans huge collection move
The new centre will house the museum’s vast mammal collections, non-insect invertebrates (such as corals, crustaceans, molluscs, and worms), molecular collections and ocean bottom sediments, totalling more than 27 million specimens.
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** Man arrested after Mona Lisa smeared with cake
A 36-year-old man has been arrested and placed in psychiatric care after he smeared a glass screen encasing the Mona Lisa with cake in a purported protest against artists not focusing enough on “the planet”.
** Months After Opening, LA’s Academy Museum Workers Move to Unionize
Staff cited wage discrepancies, allegedly inadequate responses to COVID-19 outbreaks, and being asked to do work outside their job description.
** Inside the US military’s vast but rarely seen art collection
When the US military evaluates its assets, it tallies its fighter jets, attack helicopters and anything else a combat force might need; a perhaps lesser-known asset in the military’s arsenal is its series of art collections, holding tens of thousands of works.
** The New York DA’s office fighting to stop trade of looted antiquities
Over the past six years, Matthew Bogdanos, a retired Marine colonel who has run the Manhattan DA’s antiquities unit, has convicted a dozen people of antiquities trafficking.
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** Japan’s landmark capsules coming down to sit in museums
Those capsules in museums will be refinished by the Kurokawa architectural office, which went over the original designs to figure out how each box could be detached with minimal damage, a feat especially difficult in the crowded Ginza area.
** Megalodons vs. Great White Sharks? We Know Which Predator Won
The largest shark that ever lived may have vanished in part because the comparatively smaller great white had a taste for the same prey.
** A stolen, horribly damaged De Kooning painting Is Conserved
While one thief kept a lone museum guard distracted, the other took hold of the painting at the top left corner and, yanking it down toward the right and then pulling it sharply to the left, violently ripped it off the intractable backing.
** Oldest Prehistoric Mine in America Was Used for Extracting Pigments
Indigenous people began quarrying for hematite (the iron oxide compound that produces the red pigment we know as ochre), using antlers and animal bones, some 12,840 years ago.
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** Urfa mosaic museum reflects ancient history of the Turkish city
Two thousand years ago, in their luxury villas, the Roman elite walked upon floor mosaics depicting fantastical scenes of wild animals, heroic Greek mythology and colourful geometrical designs artfully made from impossibly small stones.
** Some Dinosaurs Descended from an Ancestor That Were Likely Warm-Blooded
Considering each of these taxa are related to dinosaurs, evolutionary biologists have constantly pondered whether dinosaurs possessed cold-blooded metabolic functions similar to their reptile counterparts or warm-blooded glycolysis like their bird family members.
** FBI records on search for fabled gold raise more questions
A scientific analysis commissioned by the FBI shortly before agents went digging for buried treasure suggested that a huge quantity of gold could be below the surface, according to newly released government documents and photos that deepen the mystery of the 2018 excavation in remote western Pennsylvania.
** The Silver Casket
According to a handwritten note stored with it from the late 17th century, this is the Queen Elizabeth II and the British Museum.
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** Rescue funding masked ‘underlying financial fragility’ of sector
Two reports released last month have given an insight into the state of the UK museum sector as it emerges from the pandemic.
** An Gorta Mór
During the years 1845 - 1851 Ireland suffered a loss in population of over 1 million people through emigration and a further 1 million people died through starvation and disease.
** FBI investigating authenticity of 25 Basquiat paintings at Florida museum
Concerns about the authenticity of the art include a claim that the FedEx typeface featured on a piece of cardboard in the collection was not created until 1994, six years after Basquiat’s death.
** Art and Accounting, Best Friends Forever!
So why am I talking about art and accounting near the southern border of Switzerland — in a windy and trafficy and noisy location? Well, it turns out about 40 miles south of here and about five and a quarter centuries ago, art and accounting were best friends.
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** Ancient Greeks: Athletes, Warriors and Heroes
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** Researchers Confirm Determined Seagull Finally Made It Into Outer Space
In a press conference commending the bird’s tenacity in the face of serious obstacles, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration officials confirmed Wednesday that a determined seagull had finally made it into outer space.
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