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** What It’s Like to Live With Art That Doesn’t Love You Back
The burritos, sitting on a windowsill in an otherwise empty gallery, took on
a surreal beauty — recognizable as what they were, but stripped of any usual
meaning: two beige lumps slowly collapsing in the fading sunlight.
** Museums move into Moscow's huge Soviet-era fairground
The Russian capital is planning to create a vast museums complex to rival
European equivalents such as Berlin’s Museum Island and Vienna’s
MuseumsQuartier.
** Lakes of mercury and human sacrifices
When archaeologists found a tunnel under Teotihuacan, Mexico’s ‘birthplace
of the gods’, they could only dream of the riches they would discover.
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** Selfies in the museum? yay Or nay?
Although we told everyone to be careful, the staff was in conversation with
someone at the time and was not paying full attention. … and you've seen the
rest.
** A Closer Look at Africa’s First Contemporary Art Museum
Conceived of as an exploded grain husk, the space was realized by 42 teams
of engineers using industrial-diamond cable to cut into the concrete grain
silos, which were recast in added concrete.
** Former Met boss was passionate about the museum and its mission
‘Tapestry Tom’ was seen as an odd choice when he took over at the Met, and
his modernizing mission caused division and dissent; seven months after
resigning he explains why he feels vindicated.
** Tate St Ives: a stunning new gallery, bullied into hiding
A clever underground extension makes the most of St Ives’ magical light and
allows it to stay open all year long; it could have been truly great if
local resistance hadn’t cramped its style.
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** County Historical Museum works to restore artifacts damaged by Harvey
Board members don't have an estimate yet on how much repairs will cost, so
they're trying to salvage some artifacts themselves; some valuable documents
were soaked through.
** Guggenheim Museum in NYC yanks 3 pieces after PETA protest
The Guggenheim said the exhibit was supposed to encourage viewers to think
about the social conditions of globalization, but explicit and repeated
threats of violence forced it to pull the pieces.
** The British Dental Museum
Austin Powers may have struck comedic gold with his British “bad teeth” bit,
but this tiny museum tells a different story—though it’s definitely not for
odontophobics.
** Palace Museum limits those viewing famous painting
The Palace Museum in Beijing, also known as the Forbidden City, has set a
quota for the number of visitors to its ongoing popular exhibition of
landscape paintings to avoid long queues.
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** See Dutch masterpieces without ever leaving Amsterdam airport
If you’re in Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport for a stopover – or even if you
didn’t get time to do everything you wanted to do in the city – you can
still see some of the most famous artworks in the Netherlands without ever
leaving the airport terminal.
** 12 Must-See Fall Exhibits Around the World
From contemporary art and mathematics to Harry Potter and dinosaurs, museums
are opening new exhibits designed to inform and delight visitors at every
turn.
** Building a craft to visit the Titanic shipwreck, again and again
Today it looks like an eight-foot-long section of culvert pipe, but in just
a couple of months, the carbon-fibre cylinder will serve as the heart of a
five-person submersible that’s destined to visit the Titanic, the world’s
most famous shipwreck.
** New Discoveries Solve Mystery of How the Great Pyramid Was Built
Despite centuries of research into the pyramids of Giza, there has still
been no definitive explanation as to how the ancient Egyptians cut,
transported, and assembled millions of limestone and granite blocks, each
weighing an average of 2.3 metric tons.
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** Portsmouth museum wins £5m for last D-Day landing craft
LCT 7074 arrived at Gold beach at about midnight on D-Day, surviving German
shell fire which sank the craft next to it.
** World's largest wildlife museum opens
Filled with over 35,000 animals, the two-part attraction features a 1.5
million gallons of salt and freshwater aquariums on one side, and over 1.5
miles of immersive habitat trails on the other.
** Hokonui Moonshine Museum
From the late 1800s to the middle of the 20th century, the Hokonui Hills in
the Southland region of New Zealand were dotted with more than just sheep.
** How This Washington, D.C. Museum Redefined What Museums Could Be
Fifty years after its founding, the Smithsonian’s beloved Anacostia
Community Museum continues to tell stories heard nowhere else.
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** Leaving the Museum Field
We wanted to know: Are these difficult working conditions enough for
dedicated (and highly educated) museum professionals to abandon their years
of experience to start over in another working environment?.
** Defining the Museum of the 21st Century
International Conference
** Whatever you do, you must not look at Her Majesty
To coincide with the launch of the forthcoming film Victoria & Abdul
** Call for Proposals
AAMG/UMAC Annual Conference 2018
** TEG training opportunities in Edinburgh this autumn
TEG is partnering with Museums Galleries Scotland this autumn to deliver
three training opportunities
** Tortured artist actually lives very nice life
As a sculptor, the most unrealistic of all art disciplines, Sanders
continues to express that he “never got any handouts in my life” even though
his mother curates The New York Museum of Modern Art and his father is a
tech millionaire
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