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** Why Italy should sell the 5,000 antiquities recovered by the police
It would be sensible now for Italian museums to be invited to choose a small
number of masterpieces from the carabinieri’s hoard, and then for the state
to sell the rest gradually, with an authorising “passport” for each item
** Real Rubens was deaccessioned by the MET as copy
Rubens painting cast off by Metropolitan Museum as a copy has been
authenticated as real — oops
** Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum
Today, as entertainment becomes increasingly digital and spare time is in
ever-shorter supply, art museums and cultural institutions have been put in
a bind
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** One Of The World's Largest Collections Of Pin-Up Girls Goes On View
The history of the pin-up girl stems back to the time of World War I, when
President Woodrow Wilson formed the Division of Pictorial Publicity to
create visual stimuli to persuade men to join the war effort
** Our Eternal Obsession With Disguise
Whether it's a helmet for the big game, a disguise for a stealthy
rendezvous, a transformative adornment completing a costume, or a headpiece
dutifully positioned before singing in the mirror, most of us are familiar
with the otherworldly metamorphosis that goes with donning a mask
** Conserving Dürer’s Triumphal Arch: a moving experience
Originally designed to be pasted on the walls of princely castles, the
impression at the British Museum was never used as originally intended, and
is one of only a handful to have survived
** Would I do a nude art tour? Sod that
What happens if a couple break the rules and get carried away in one of
Turrell’s luminous installations?
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** Reject David Koch money, scientists and museum officials' letter urges
Museum leaders around the country are being urged to reject philanthropic
dollars from billionaire David H. Koch in an open letter this week signed by
a group of prominent scientists and museum officials
** Italian American Museum Looks to Evict 85-Year-Old Italian Grandma
The 85-year-old grandmother, who moved into her home in 1962, faces eviction
from her landlord, the Italian American Museum, which wants to expand into
her building
** Outrage at the damage to India's precious artefacts
Irreversible damage to two of the finest pieces of Indian art at the Indian
Museum in Kolkata, renowned for its collection of rare artefacts, has made
the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) write to the Union Culture Ministry
** Travel Channel's Don Wildman's Top 5 Museums
Please, understand that the list is entirely personal and is not intended to
consciously disregard the myriad great museums elsewhere who offer equally
excellent if not superior collections to those I’ve chosen
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** Disputed painting confirmed as Monet
An analysis of the pigments and canvas fibres also confirmed the painting
was by the Impressionist
Crowds visit National Museum exhibition on Mr Lee Kuan Yew
People have been streaming in to the National Museum of Singapore to retrace
Mr Lee Kuan Yew's life at a new exhibition dedicated to him
Meet the man who broke into a museum — to hang his artwork
He was the first artist known to pull off such a stunt; only a decade later
did the famous British guerrilla artist Banksy do the same
Call for museums and galleries to appoint more women to top jobs
After the National Gallery’s announcement last week of its 14th male
director, some are asking why the glass ceiling is still in place
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** Rare artifact at Sisson mine site dates back 8,500 years
Archaeologists have recovered hundreds of artifacts at the site of the
proposed Sisson mine north of Fredericton, including a rare find that could
be up to 8,500 years old
** Inexpensive IKEA art print fools visitors to museum in the Netherlands
Visitors were invited to guess how much the print is worth, with some
estimating in the hundreds of thousands of euros, and one visitor saying he
would buy it for 2.5 million euros
** I found my mother's hideous, beige 1980s kitchen in a museum
Visitors burst out laughing as they wonder why their parents’ house deserves
to be in a museum
** Gardner’s leaky roofs imperil art treasures within
It is not as sudden or dramatic crisis as a night-time raid by armed
criminals — more of a persistent nuisance that over the past month has
turned into an unfolding humiliation
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** Frog burger to celebrates opening of poison creatures exhibit
Other items on the “Frog Menu” include a Frog Egg Sweet—which contains frog
and “spawn” though is reportedly just made from almond tofu and fruit jelly
** Museums as Civic Spaces
The 8th International Conference on the Inclusive Museum
** Treasures Abroad: Works of Chao Shao-an from the Asian Art Museum of San
Francisco
Hong Kong Heritage Museum
** The 11th International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology
Call for proposals for Symposia and Workshops
** This Week's Horoscopes
Sagittarius - They say you can never step into the same river twice, but
thanks to crocodiles and your refusal to learn how to swim, once is all
you'll need.
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