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** Yorkshire to sell museum to save collection
Yorkshire are in the process of selling their cricket museum to keep
valuable memorabilia out of the hands of liquidators should the club ever go
into administration
** The $3 Billion Family Art Feud
The Goulandris collection is now at the center of one of the biggest and
most complex legal disputes over art in Europe-including a bombshell
revelation in the Panama Papers
** 'Unforgettable' V&A wins museum of the year award
The V&A has been named 2016 museum of the year, winning the UK's largest
arts prize, for providing visitors with what judges called an unforgettable
experience
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** The Meaning Of Images In A World Where Disposable Images Are Everywhere
It may no longer be possible to come to the usual conclusions, to go on
validating (or discrediting) works of art in the usual way
** US museum returns icons to Russia, defusing international controversy
An international arts controversy involving Russia and a small museum in
central Massachusetts is over - for now
** Eight gold coins mark the site of an ancient Roman massacre
Roughly 18,000 men were killed during the slaughter in Teutoburg Forest in
9C, when German tribes led by Arminius ambushed three Roman legions
** British Museum celebrates 'most successful year ever'
The institution has hailed its 'most successful year ever', with nearly 6.9
million visitors crossing the BM's threshold over the period
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** Original Star Trek Enterprise returns to Museum
Thanks to the work of Smithsonian conservators, it appears that the original
Starship Enterprise from the 1960s TV series "Star Trek" will indeed live
long and prosper
** Medieval weapon-making foundry discovered on shore of Lake Baikal
Two furnaces made of stone were unearthed, believed to have been used to
smelt iron ore for weapons such as knives, arrowheads and quiver hooks as
well as parts for harnesses, stirrups, sickles, and belt buckles
** What is a Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, anyway?
So to sum it up, this "Museum of Narrative Art" will be, apparently, a
populist art museum with a strong concentration in showing movies
** Top Chinese art collector to hand over museum, sell works
One of the world's leading collectors of Chinese art, Belgian billionaire
Guy Ullens, is to give up his eponymous Beijing museum -- among the
capital's top art centres -- and sell his private collection
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** Self-propelled: Exhibition on bicycle design and culture
Two hundred years have passed since the invention of the hobby horse or
running machine, yet the idea of being "self-propelled" by bicycle still has
an enormously magnetic appeal
** Danish Museum Acknowledges Its Italian Antiquities Were Looted And
Returns Them
It took years of often tense negotiations, but the Italian Ministry of
Culture and the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek art museum in Copenhagen have signed
an agreement that includes the return of archaeological artifacts that Italy
said had been looted from Italian soil
** How 2 Rembrandts in a Paris Bedroom Ended Up at the Rijksmuseum
Until now, Mr. de Rothschild has never spoken publicly about the sale of the
paintings last year to the Rijksmuseum and the Louvre for 160 million euros
** The 6,000-Year-Old Telescope
Astronomers are exploring ancient tombs in Portugal that they believe may
have been used by prehistoric humans to enhance specific views of the night
skies
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** Slavery as free trade
In the middle of the 18th century, as the slave trade boomed like never
before, some notable European observers saw it as a model of free enterprise
and indeed of 'liberty' itself
** Museum fire considered latest chapter for long history of U'mista pieces
Work to conserve the fire-damaged collection at the U'mista Cultural Centre
on northern Vancouver Island is almost complete, but the pieces are not
being restored to their original condition
** Wydr is Tinder for buying art
Who needs galleries when you can just flip through a stack of artworks on
your phone, swiping right when you like what you see and left when you
don't?
** Museums across the UK face closure threat
While we recognise that local authorities are under pressure and have to
make tough spending decisions, there is a danger that whole communities will
be left without museums and the rich and diverse stories that they can tell
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** Drunken NFL player locked inside Palm Beach museum
Murphy told police he went into the courtyard and fell asleep on the steps;
when he woke up everyone was gone and the doors were locked
** Petersburg National Battlefield Investigates Looting in Park
Law enforcement officers at Petersburg NB in Virginia identified a large
number of looters' pits
** JIMI 2017
The Southeastern Museums Conference (SEMC) proudly announces the 17th annual
Jekyll Island Management Institute
** This Week's Horoscopes
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circumstances allow your thinking to be clouded by superstition
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