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** The Next Rembrandt: Data analysts 'bring artist back to life' to create
one last painting
Over an 18-month period, a team of art historians, engineers and developers
from all over the world worked on the project, with the end result being a
3D printed work made up of 148 million pixels, based on 168,263 Rembrandt
painting fragments
** Absolutely Gross, Degenerate Stuff: Trump and the Arts
There is no evidence that Trump ever entertained becoming a serious
collector, and a Trump spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment
** The crazy scale of the US’s benefactor-driven museum boom
American museum directors claim their institutions need to physically expand
for two main reasons: to have enough room to store and show their absurdly
large collections, and to attract new gifts from donors
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** Local archivist finds missing Wright brothers patent in cave
A century-old patent file for the Wright brothers’ pioneering airplane was
missing for 36 years until a group of researchers tracked it down last month
to a storage cave in Lenexa
** Our Natural History, Endangered
When people talk about natural history museums, they almost always roll out
the well-worn descriptive “dusty,” to the great exasperation of a curator I
know
** Daughter of World War Two RAF hero who fled SS in Norway creates
exhibition
Nicknamed Olly, a Norwegian man left his family without telling them and
fled the SS to help the RAF during the Second World War
** Social media use improves museum access
The Broad’s extraordinary success with a younger demographic can be tied to
its unique utilization of social media; one in four visitors heard about the
museum through someone else’s social media feed
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** Swiss, German museums to show Nazi-era art hoard found in Cornelius
Gurlitt's apartment
Gurlitt, the son of an art dealer tasked by Adolf Hitler with helping to
plunder great works from museums and Jewish collectors - many of whom
perished in the gas chambers - left his vast collection to the Bern museum
** Ancient DNA shows European wipe-out of early Americans
The first large-scale study of ancient DNA from early American people has
confirmed the devastating impact of European colonization on the Indigenous
American populations of the time
** Brass Foundry Is Closing, but Debate Over Degas’s Work Goes On
For years, some scholars have taken issue with whether the bronzes can
accurately be attributed to Degas, because they question whether the
plasters from which they are cast can be traced back to wax sculptures he
created
** Inside America’s Auschwitz
The former indigo, sugar and cotton operation, which finally opened to the
public after years of careful restoration in December 2014 as the country’s
first slave museum, is a modern avatar of injustice
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** Microbiologists unmask the Hannibal route enigma
Microbiologists have recently released results that may have answered one of
ancient history's greatest enigmas: Where did Hannibal cross the Alps
** Met Museum’s Broken Angel Reveals Its Creator’s Methods
Sometime late on July 1, 2008, for reasons still not completely known, a
terra cotta relief of the archangel St. Michael by the Renaissance master
Andrea della Robbia came loose from its place above a doorway at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art and plunged to the stone floor
** Museum directors, curator say museums offer community meaningful
opportunities
Museums are where “the things you’ve either learned about or read about or
dreamt about become tangible and possible"
** SC museum buys Confederate weapons
South Carolina's military history museum has bought the bulk of what's
believed to be the largest collection of British-imported Confederate
weapons that were smuggled into southern ports through the Union blockade
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** Experts Doubt Claims of 'Hidden Chambers' in King Tut's Tomb
Radar experts are casting doubt on claims that King Tutankhamun's tomb
contains hidden, undiscovered chambers — and they're calling for more data
to be released
** Congressional failures just forced the Marines to raid a museum for
aircraft parts
Marine aviation squadrons are salvaging aircraft parts from museums in order
to keep planes flying, according to anecdotes from a key congressional
leader
** View From Space Hints at a New Viking Site in North America
The new Canadian site, with tell-tale signs of iron-working, was discovered
last summer after infrared images from 400 miles in space showed possible
man-made shapes under discoloured vegetation
** Museum gang jailed for £57m Chinese art and rhino thefts
Seven members of an organised crime gang have been jailed for their roles in
stealing artefacts worth up to £57m from museums and an auction house
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** Conversation on Continuing Education/Professional Development
A focus group on Continuing Education/Professional Development needs across
the Museum, Library, and Archives communities will be held at the American
Alliance of Museums (AAM) conference
** Unlocking Sound and Image Heritage
SOIMA 2015 International Conference
** The Met’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: The New Edition
The Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History presents a chronological,
geographical, and thematic exploration of global art history through The Met
collection
** Colonial Style and Fashionable Melbourne
The Johnston Collection
** This Week's Horoscope
Leo - There hasn’t been a stampeding death in your area in more than a
century, but your air horn and steer costume will change all that
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