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** Paintings Have Become Increasingly Blue
A Ph.D. student decided to download pictures of paintings—over 130,000 of
them—to see how their dominant colors changed between 1800 and 2000
** 'Terror birds' had deep voices, fossil suggests
A 90%-complete "terror bird" skeleton found on an Argentinean beach suggests
these big-beaked predators had good low-frequency hearing and deep voices
** Making Art Tied to Fewer Cognitive Problems in Old Age
A just-published study from the Mayo Clinic points to yet another activity
that, consistently pursued for decades, may be even more effective at
warding off cognitive decline: making art
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** Swords, Sleight of Hand and a Speaking Mummy
The Luxor Mummy originally belonged to Alexander Pantages, the owner of a
vaudeville theater chain, who claimed that it was a seer and prophet named
Ra Ra Ra
** The scourge of the bronze zombies: how terrible statues are ruining art
The art that once gave us Michelangelo’s David and Rodin’s Burghers of
Calais has degenerated into a cynical province of second-rate hacks who are
filling up city squares, railway stations and other public spaces all over
the world with ugly, stupid and occasionally terrifying parodies of the
human form
** Whitney's curators explore wide open spaces of new downtown home
Curators worked closely with the architect Renzo Piano to create a building
tailored to the Whitney’s collection but flexible enough to accommodate
whatever artists might dream up in the future
** We can only imagine the horrific injuries
15th century War of the Roses handgun blew apart when soldier attempted to
use it during bloody battle more than 550 years ago
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** Neil MacGregor made running the British Museum look easy
Although it would be a cliché to talk of following a hard act, his successor
will unenviably inherit an institution that has been remoulded and to some
extent reinvented on his idiosyncratic template
** When the World Went Pop
Some works by American artists were so valuable they carried enormous
insurance burdens, while works from countries like Brazil, Argentina,
Hungary and Japan had to be “excavated” from storage or artists’ own
collections, where they have sat, little seen, for decades
** Preserving specimen collections the goal for museum group formed at
Field
The Field and 11 other leading natural history museums are forming a new
group focused primarily on managing their invaluable specimen collections
** Preservation or plunder? The battle over the British Museum’s Indigenous
Australian show
If the Ngambri people went to England, killed 90% of the population and
everything else that is indigenous to England and sent the crown jewels back
to Ngambri Country as a prize exhibit … what would the remaining 10% of
English people have to say about that? Read more.
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** This Is What Happens When You Bring Nudists To An Art Museum
The tours usually take place after hours, when the "skyclad" spectators -
that's the official modifier for nude art tour enthusiasts - can soak up
masterpieces without the prying eyes of more puritanical admirers
** New Jersey's love affair with diners blossoms in museum exhibit
The seven-room exhibit begins with the history of the diner, which began not
in New Jersey but in Providence Rhode Island in 1872 by a man named Walter
Scott who decided to provide food with a lunch wagon for an underserved
group
** Hawaii museum to unveil artifacts lost in shipwreck 191 years ago
Hawaiian King's treasures lost in shipwreck 191 years ago and retrieved by
divers finally returned to its homeland and set to go on display
** Smirk of art: Dallas museum prankster's satirical display makes us laugh
– at him
Teen philistine clearly doesn’t get modern art if he thinks everyday objects
can’t be used to create conceptual masterpieces
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** Japanese museum finally exhibits details of live dissection of US
prisoners of war
It has taken seven decades for a small section of a new museum at Kyushu
University to reveal details of the horrifying medical experiments
** A British Museum Is Showing Off a MacBook Air
It’s the laptop Guardian employees destroyed in 2013, at the behest of
British intelligence officials, because the paper had used it to store data
leaked from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden
** The Volcanic Link To Munch's The Scream
The red skies in Edvard Munch’s famous 1893 painting The Scream are now
thought to reflect the eerie twilights seen in Norway for months after
Krakatoa’s eruption
** A taste of archaeology by making, throwing spears
Making an atlatl and learning how to throw it opens a window for budding
anthropologists or archaeologists to understand the past
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** Why scientists want Singapore's coral to spawn in London
A collection of live corals collected from two reefs off the Singapore have
been transported to the Horniman Museum in London
** Connecting Your Collections to Teachers and Students
The registration for AASLH’s Connecting Your Collections to Teachers and
Students workshop scheduled for June 17-18 in Chicago, IL, is now open
HistoricPlacesLA Launches
In parallel to the GCI and World Monuments Fund's development of Arches the
GCI, working with the City of Los Angeles, has created HistoricPlacesLA.
** Emerging Trends
We are pleased to announce the registration on Annual Conference of ICOM
International Committee for Marketing and Public Relations (MPR) in 2015
open
** This Week's Horoscopes
Scorpio - You'll try to play both sides against each other for personal
gain, proving again why you are the worst chess player ever
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