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** British Museum gears up for radical modernisation project
The so-called “Rosetta Project” will see the London landmark comprehensively redisplay its permanent galleries, as well as modernising the deteriorating fabric and infrastructure of its 170-year-old building.
** The Future of Museum Labour: Exploring the Latest COVID Impact Data
The newest data reveals both the first signs of recovery, for at least part of the sector, but also signals of deep and continued damage.
** Courtauld Gallery Pulls Severed-Ear Erasers From Its Online Van Gogh Shop
Critics are also blasting the museum for selling a bar of soap for “the tortured artist who enjoys fluffy bubbles."
** Rockin' the Renaissance: When painting on stone became fine art
Starting in Renaissance Rome, fine art was painted on dark slate or surfaces such as snowy marble, vivid blue lapis lazuli or rich purple amethyst; detailed scenes, pulled from mythology, religion or nature, might use bare stone to depict an ocean or sky.
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** Tate Britain to Commission Artist to ‘Reframe’ Racist Mural in Restaurant
The announcement suggests that Tate won’t remove portions of the controversial painting by Rex Whistler, which an ethics committee with the museum network had previously deemed “offensive.”
** A Failed Bank Was Supposed to Sell Off Its Pricey Art Collection to Repay Clients
But there’s a hitch: The valuable paintings, including a Caravaggio said to be worth millions, cannot physically be moved from their location due to national heritage laws.
** Tehran apartment turns into tiny museum of the sixties
Despite being registered by the Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts Department of Tehran province, the museum gallery cannot be open to the public because it is set within a private apartment
** UK museum in urgent appeal for funds to finish repairs on 17th-century naval tapestry
A monumental masterpiece depicting a 17th-century naval battle in silk and wool that is so fragile it has not been seen in public for 22 years is the subject of an urgent crowdfunding appeal to complete its delicate conservation
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** Rarely Seen Goya Sketches Shown at Prado Museum for First Time in a Century
Owned by the Fundación Tatiana Pérez de Guzmán el Bueno, the earlier sketch was exhibited twice in 1900, in Madrid and Lisbon, while the second sketch is being presented to the public for the first time ever.
** Germany, Austria Repatriate Dozens of Human Skulls to Hawaii
Some German collectors dug up remains from historic cemeteries without securing permission; others sent back the bones of locals killed by colonial forces.
** Touring the ultimate aviation museum
With fragile World War I bombers, supersonic Cold War fighters and experimental aircraft that touched the edge of space, every era is represented.
** 'Laboratory of the future': Rome's Maxxi museum unveils plans for new R&D centre, green spaces and solar energy
Little more than a decade after it first opened in 2010, the Maxxi museum in Rome—Italy’s national museum of contemporary art and architecture—is launching an ambitious project to build new museum spaces, become more sustainable and regenerate its neighbourhood.
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** Looking Back on a Colonial Struggle, a Museum Stirs New Disputes
At the Netherlands’ national museum, describing the events in which Indonesia threw off Dutch colonial rule was never going to be easy.
** Newly discovered crocodile species ate a young dinosaur for its last meal
A new species of crocodile dating back to the Cretaceous period has been discovered in Queensland, Australia, and its last meal was a young dinosaur, scientists say.
** Meet the Girl Who Is Visiting Every Museum in New York City
In February 2021, she set out on an ambitious project––to visit every museum in New York City, and document it on her TikTok.
** Painting Climate Change in the 17th Century
The 17th century has furnished us with a unique resource: millions of paintings, prints, and drawings that record the consequences of the Little Ice Age for ordinary people.
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** Tate becomes latest institution to drop Sackler name
Tate has confirmed that it is removing all references to the Sacklers from its London galleries amid ongoing legal battles over the family’s role in the US opioid epidemic.
** Uncovering the family history behind an axe
Te Papa highlights the story of a fighting axe with a connection to one of New Zealand’s famous families, the Seddons.
** Mexico’s cultural appropriation ban is off to a messy start
To fight back against the plagiarism and dispossession of Indigenous art, Mexico has approved a law meant to protect and safeguard the cultural heritage of Indigenous and Afro-Mexican peoples and communities.
** Reports that Christo and Jeanne-Claude's final project is set to be built "misleading"
The Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation has denied reports that the duo's Mastaba project is set to be realised in the UAE as it still doesn't have government authorisation.
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** A Conversation about Collaboration and the Conservation of Indigenous Heritage
Indigenous histories and objects are part of thousands of museum collections around the world.
** Artificially Intelligent Amazon Supercomputer Stuck In Dead-End Retail Job
Other supercomputers are out there launching rockets and testing the bounds of quantum computing, but I stay here, stuck in this rut of getting people their deliveries of diapers, self-help books, and double-A batteries.
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