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** Our Museums Have Been Taken Over By A Culture Of Complaining
In pushing the victim to the heart of art’s raison d’être, and making
therapy one of its central functions, contemporary art, and the museums
which have followed in its wake
** For Centuries, European Painters Used Ground Mummies As Pigment
For centuries, European artists adorned their canvases with pigment made
from the pulverized remains of ancient Egyptians
** Hapless caterer knocks thumb off Roman statue in British Museum accident
The British Museum has admitted to an "unfortunate incident" which saw the
thumb of the famous Townley Venus knocked clean off by a member of catering
staff
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** Are children's menus in museum cafes too unhealthy?
A survey by the Soil Association has found that museums rank among the
worst-performing attractions when it comes to offering healthy meals for
children
** A Dubious Old Master Unnerves the Art World
Dutch curators at the Mauritshuis and the Rijksmuseum joined the chorus of
scholars who decided the enigmatic portrait of a man dressed in black was an
undiscovered masterwork by Frans Hals
** Playing Chicken With the Art World
Until now, Mr. Vanmechelen’s chickens have been raised solely as art; they
die natural deaths, and then some are transformed by taxidermy into
sculptural objects
** Humans may have hunted cave lions to extinction - for throw rugs
It turns out safari-going bros worried about their masculinity aren’t the
only ones who collect animal skin rugs
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** Battling London’s Great Fire of 1666 With Minecraft
The museum’s series of Minecraft games — which reimagine London before the
fire and then gutted by flames, with a future game planned on the city
reborn — are part of a strategy for sharing the treasures of the London
museum globally
** The Next Great Smithsonian Museum Won’t Fit on the Mall
After the successive launches of the Native American and African-American
museums, there’s no obvious next action item for the folks who display our
national heritage
** Artificial Intelligence as a Bridge for Art and Reality
What if we could link our everyday lives to the collection to illuminate
similarities between the present and the past?
** Researchers Stumble Upon Dozens of Ancient Wrecks
An international team of scientists led by the University of Southampton's
Centre for Marine Archaeology has inspected over 40 shipwrecks in the
Bulgarian sector of the Black Sea, including many new discoveries
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** 4,000 year old children's rattle still rattles!
The remarkable discovery of one of the oldest toys in the world came from
excavations at a Bronze Age settlement in modern-day Novosibrirsk region
** 'Comfort women' museum opens in Shanghai
A comfort women museum in Shanghai opened to the public on Saturday,
displaying various items donated by researchers and survivors to expose the
notorious crimes of Japanese troops during World War II (WWII)
** A Visit to the CIA's 'Secret' Abstract Art Collection
The CIA’s abstract art collection isn’t quite as "secret" as a series of
articles have made it seem — but it’s more politically significant than it
appears, and there are still unanswered questions
** The Museum of Jurassic Marine Life opens its doors
Its collection of more than 2,000 exhibits is the result of the passion of
one man who has devoted more than 35 years of his life combing the famous
coastline in search of fossils and items from a time when the earth was
different to the planet we know today
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** Artworks in Dutch museum painted by famed Japanese artist Hokusai?
Six works of art at a Dutch national museum may have been painted by famed
ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai, a researcher at the museum says
** DiCaprio's LACMA Fundraising Dragged Into Malaysia Scandal
The Oscar winner's efforts appear to have resulted in LACMA benefiting from
potentially stolen money thanks to his relationship with Red Granite
Pictures whose principals are key figures in a $3 billion Malaysian
embezzlement scandal involving public funds
** What a Legless Mouse Tells Us About Snake Evolution
It didn’t lose those limbs; it just never grew them originally because a
team of researchers had replaced part of its DNA—a small sequence known as
ZRS—the equivalent sequence from a snake
** That Time the Statue of Liberty Almost Got a Glowing Wrist Watch
The Statue of Liberty was beautiful, the brothers —Benjamin, Oscar, and S.
Ralph Lazarus— conceded, but didn’t such a goddess deserve a bit of bling?
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** Ohio museum sells pieces despite protests from Cyprus, Egypt
The sale of nearly two dozen antiquities from an Ohio art museum brought in
$640,000 despite objections to the auction from the governments of Egypt and
Cyprus
** Are the Ruins Really Ruined?
Please join us at Birkbeck Interdisciplinary Research in Media and Culture
(BIRMAC) for a talk with Owen Hatherley
** Four Mystery Audio Discs and a Lost Native Alaskan Dialect from the
Island of Attu
In 2013, the Oral History Program at University of Alaska Fairbanks received
an audio mystery in a box
** German/American Provenance Research Exchange Program for Museum
Professionals
The Smithsonian Provenance Research Initiative (SPRI) and the Stiftung
Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, SPK)
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Taurus - Remember: The sum of the pleasure of any two sides of a right-angle
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