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** From Byzantine banning to the Jeff Koons attack: the lamest art
vandalism ever
The recent lacklustre spray-paint job on a Jeff Koons is nothing new in art
... rubbish vandals have always been with us
** Thousands explore wonders at museum warehouse
Thousands of adults and children set aside their smartphones and video games
for an up-close look at nature's astounding biodiversity as the Canadian
Museum of Nature opened its national collections and research labs for a day
of public viewing
** Heirs to Nazi-confiscated NGV painting insist it was by van Gogh
The legal heirs to a painting held by the National Gallery of Victoria for
more than 75 years are convinced it was the work of Vincent van Gogh,
despite the Van Gogh Museum in the Netherlands decreeing that it was not
created by the Dutch master
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** Porn Or Art: Marquis De Sade Still Shocking Paris 200 Years Later
The recently opened exhibition "Sade, attacking the sun" at the Musée
d’Orsay in Paris carries an unusual warning – a first tip that this is not
your normal cultural experience
** In Weft and Warp, Earth, Heaven and Hell
The Met's exhibition clarifies the tapestry-making process while also
revealing the expressive power and stylistic consistency possible in works
made by scores of hands other than the artist's
** Cambridge University reveals ancient sketch of couple in the act which
vandalised star book
A passionate pencil portrait of a saucy couple, lewdly embracing at the foot
of an otherwise untarnished page in one of the most famous and collectable
books in English printing history, is one of the unexpected highlights of a
new exhibition at Cambridge University showing how ancient books were used
and abused
** Spanish museum to stage first Givenchy retrospective
The exhibition, curated by the 87-year-old designer himself, features about
100 of his finest pieces selected from museums and private collections
around the world from a career spanning nearly five decades
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** 18th Century Witching Bottle Found
A green glass vessel could date from the witch hunts of the 18th century,
when bottles were filled with fingernails, hair and urine possessing
spell-stopping capabilities
** V&A's game designer releases game based on William Morris' Strawberry
Thief
If William Morris were alive today, would the arts and crafts pioneer be
designing computer games?
** How the last Gallipoli gunboat was saved
She is one of only two remaining warships from the First World War, and the
only one to have served at Gallipoli, where 50,000 Allied servicemen died
without gaining an inch of soil
** Victims of Syrian regime honoured at DC's Holocaust museum
A video installation of images smuggled out from Syria puts them in the
context of the 20th century's greatest atrocity, and the impact is profound
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** Invasion of the giant spiders? Not quite
Giant spiders are invading Britain’s homes - if media reports this year are
anything to go by - but are they dangerous? Read more.
** Bronze Warrior Chariot Discovery Is 'Find of a Lifetime'
The pieces are the metal remains of a chariot that once belonged to a
warrior or noble, according to university archaeologist
** What's the right way to behave in a museum?
The Tumblr features photos Rodley finds online and some submissions of
people looking at art in museums accompanied by a short critique of what is
right or wrong about what they're doing
** Paul McCarthy hits back at French critics of his 'butt plug' sculpture
Stung by the public backlash against his giant green installation, Tree,
which resembled a sex toy, McCarthy has been working on an "aggressive"
response as part of an exhibition at the Paris Mint
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** Hubble Space Telescope 25th Anniversary Exhibit Opens
Astronaut Mike Massimino is sitting on the floor, completely fixated on the
video showing him and his former space shuttle crewmates training underwater
to upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope
** Lost At The Museum? This Ingenious 3-D Map Makes Navigation A Cinch
To help out confused museum-goers a Dutch graphic designer based in New York
created the Paper Pathfinder for the Rijksmuseum
** San Diego Police Museum seeks a new home
It's a quirky place, hand-built and run by retired police officers who
volunteer their time as goodwill ambassadors to law enforcement
** Around Amsterdam in 7 strange museums
Where Amsterdam excels, though, is in its extensive collections of
curiosities - museums that celebrate the engagingly odd obsessions of their
curators
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** 45,000-Year-Old Bone Pinpoints Era of Human-Neanderthal Sex
Unearthed by an ivory carver from a Siberian riverbank, a man's
45,000-year-old thigh bone reveals when people first mated with Neanderthals
** UK Heritage Lottery Fund endorses Liverpool museum project
A Napoleon death mask, exquisite Chinese porcelain and world-renowned
Wedgwood jasperware are some of the incredible collections, amassed by one
man, William Hesketh Lever, which will benefit from a major Heritage Lottery
Fund (HLF) grant.
** 2015 Getty Leadership Institute Applications Now Open
The Getty Leadership Institute at CGU invites applications for the GLI 2015
and NextGen 2015 executive education programs in museum leadership. GLI
programs academically rigorous and address current topics in the museum
field.
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Libra - Some say the world will end in ice, some fire. However, the end of
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