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** How should museums respond to Donald Trump?
Directors of prominent US institutions respond to questions about what they
can or should do in the age of Trump.
** An amusement-park ride at the museum?
These in-gallery experiences represent a dramatic shift in museum
exhibitions; active and multisensory, they are supplementing the traditional
exhibit case, the flat-screen movie reel and wall text.
** How Science is Peeling Back the Layers of Ancient Lacquer Sculptures
The story of the continuing research into the lives of these lacquer Buddhas
is told in rich detail in the new exhibition, and the three main
specimens-as well as a 3D-printed facsimile of the Bodhisattva head-are all
on view for patrons to consider and compare.
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** Finding the Oldest Fossils of Butterflies Using a Human Nose Hair
The scales may also provide insight into the early evolution of the insect's
tube-like tongue, or proboscis, which the authors suggest evolved tens of
millions of years before nectar-rich flowers existed.
** Want To Focus Your Attention & Boost Your Career? Go To A Museum
A professor of medicine and an art historian and curator created The Pulse
of Art to encourage medical students to look more closely, to see things
about their patients that might be unexpected, but critical in making a
diagnosis
** Looted Antiques Seized From Billionaire's Home
Mr. Steinhardt, a hedge-fund manager and philanthropist, has been collecting
art from ancient Greece for three decades and has close ties to the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, where one of the galleries is named for him.
** Museums must reassert their values in the face of a divisive and
malevolent Trump
Whatever the longer-term causes and effects, the current reality is that his
agenda-and the values he is modelling, encouraging and appealing to in his
electoral base-are starkly at odds with the values that most museums hold at
their core.
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** Aging Heiress Plots 19 Grisly Crimes | Investigation Underway
I walked through "Murder Is Her Hobby" at the Renwick Gallery of the
Smithsonian American Art Museum, an exhibition of 19 miniature crime scenes
created by Frances Glessner Lee in the 1940s and '50s as training tools for
police investigators.
** Secret Artifacts: A journey through the world's most secretive museum
In a rare public interview, Toni Hiley takes us on a journey through the
CIA's rich history, from the impetus for the agency's creation, the attack
at Pearl Harbor to the foresight of developing Adolph Hitler's psychological
profile during WWII [PODCAST].
** A dazzling collection of Modigliani paintings has been declared fake
Experts have warned that the collection is just "the tip of the iceberg" and
that Modigliani, whose paintings fetch huge sums, is one of the most copied
artists in the world.
** Cigarette packets and chocolate boxes: How we used to store our
collections
Storing collections in the right space and environment is incredibly
important in museums - so would you be surprised to see natural history
specimens stored in colourful vintage cigarette packets?
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** The backlash to the Met's new pricing policy
Distinguishing between museum visitors by their place of residence is unfair
and asking museum visitors for proof of address seems shockingly invasive
and inappropriate, particularly at this moment in history.
** B.C. museums feel 'belittled' by McDonald's ad
A new McDonald's advertisement suggesting $5 is better spent on a kid's meal
than learning about dinosaurs has upset supporters of British Columbia's
museums.
** LACMA and the Autry Museum announce new partnership
This exchange of works and ideas will allow both museums to bolster
exhibition content especially in the areas of the historical and
contemporary American West and the exploration of indigenous cultures across
the Americas.
** Is There a Right Way to Look at Art?
Call it imposter syndrome, but I'm always searching for guidance on how to
really "see" art, particularly in cases where no amount of background
knowledge proves sufficient.
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** Hanging 'plant clouds', pterosaurs to join crowd in Field Museum's
makeover
There are more changes ahead in the Field Museum's cavernous central hall
than just kicking Sue upstairs and bringing in the model skeleton of a
titanosaur species, a plant eater that is the largest dinosaur yet
discovered.
** Mission Possible: The Museum of Tomorrow
Beyond being recreational or educational, it serves its historic function of
facilitating dialogue between the public and the artists but that now
extends across platforms and even continents.
** With Admission Fees, the Question Is: What Should a Museum Be?
What to charge visitors has been a particularly fraught issue for the museum
community, which knows that its primary mission is to make objects
accessible to the public and that high admissions fees significantly cut
down on the number of people who will come to the institutions.
** The Michelangelo Sculpture That Was Sold for Scrap
The pope at first didn't seem inclined to accept this apology, but after a
bishop spoke on the artist's behalf and received a whack in the face by a
mace-wielding pope in return, Julius II seemed to lighten up a bit.
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** The First Artifact That Is A Practical Joke?
British Museum archaeologist has revealed that this ancient Tantalus bowl
was almost certainly the invention of Romans who had a profoundly great
sense of humour.
** Grant Reminder - Save America's Treasures
Deadline: February 21, 2018
** Call for papers: Seminar for Arabian Studies 2018
The 52nd Seminar for Arabian Studies will be held at the British Museum from
Friday 3th August to Sunday 5th August 2018
** New challenges of tourism in heritage contexts
ATLAS Latin America Conference 2018
** This Week's Horoscopes
Scorpio - After your 17th time around as an underpaid office worker in the
late-20th-to-early-21st centuries, you're really starting to become
disenchanted with the whole reincarnation thing
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