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** Three Paintings On Loan From The Louvre Catch Fire
Three paintings from the collection of the Louvre, and another 200 canvases
belonging to a local maritime museum, went up in flames, when severe
lightning caused a fire on the small island of Tatihou on the French side of
the English Channel.
** 50 Years On, Living In The Met Is Still Kids’ Ultimate Fantasy
The museum shares its trove of adorable letters inspired by the beloved
children’s book “From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.”
** The Great 'Genius' Of Rare-Book Theft
Using expert techniques and fraudulent documents, he would ultimately
pillage world-class libraries to the tune of half a million dollars or more.
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** Art Hung Higher Than Eye Level Is Rated Higher Quality
Those who looked up at the work “rated the painting most positively, while
participants who looked down gave the lowest aesthetic appraisals,” the
researchers report.
** Auschwitz Artifacts to Go on Tour, Very Carefully
More than 72 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, the first traveling
exhibition about the Nazi death camp will begin a journey later this year to
14 cities across Europe and North America, bringing heart-breaking artifacts
to multitudes who have never seen such horror up close.
** Alice Cooper finds precious Warhol work in storage
Cooper had been given the work as a birthday gift from then girlfriend Cindy
Lang, who was part of the New York underground rock scene alongside Warhol,
who famously worked with The Velvet Underground.
** Classic Fred Dagg costume on display at Te Papa
Curator Stephanie Gibson says Fred Dagg was an amusing and endearing
character who was recognisably from New Zealand, a typical Kiwi bloke who
had a smart, satirical view on New Zealand culture and politics.
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** Exhibition features research on racial terror and its effect on the
nation today
The exhibition will include video stories featuring testimonies from
descendants of lynching victims and a former death-row inmate directly
affected by the legacy of lynching.
** New Moomin museum opens in Finland
Moomins fans from all over the world are already making their way to Tampere
in southern Finland to see the original artwork by author Tove Jansson and
the fantastically detailed models of scenes from the books.
** Postcards from Aden
Curator St John Simpson explores how the Museum's collection of postcards
from the port city of Aden in Yemen capture snapshots of social history.
** Britain’s best-loved artwork is a Banksy and proof of our stupidity
Being generous, I could say this fast street-art stencilling technique
suggests the ephemerality not only of the image itself, doomed to be
whitewashed by the authorities, but of us all, and our feelings.
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** Salvador Dalí’s Moustache Is In Tip-Top Shape, Exhumation Shows
The most astounding detail of the surreal ordeal is that, after all these
years, Dalí’s signature moustache hasn’t lost its panache.
** The Old Master Still-Life That Was Looted By A Soviet Spy And Crossed
The Atlantic Four Times
The story behind the work, [Balthasar van der Ast’s Flowers in a Wan-Li
Vase,] which was originally part of the collection of the Suermondt Ludwig
Museum in Aachen and then went missing for 75 years, is fit for Hollywood.
** The Smithsonian Has Discovered The Magic Of Kickstarter
The Smithsonian used Kickstarter to raise money for Neil Armstrong's
spacesuit and Dorothy's ruby slippers; was it worth it?
** Museum collecting fish mounts to display
The Destin History and Fishing Museum is close to its goal of collecting 100
fish mounts by the end of the year, an initiative to expand the museum’s
fish mounts collection and help educate visitors.
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** Berkshire Museum courts censure from museums groups
The Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, plans to auction 40 works
of art from its collection, including two original paintings by Norman
Rockwell, to fund a $40m endowment and $20m refurbishment of the
114-year-old museum.
** Oldest manatee in captivity dies a day after celebrating 69th birthday
Early indications are that an access panel door that is normally bolted shut
had somehow been knocked loose and that Snooty and was able to swim in but
because of his size, was unable to swim back out.
** Spanish wax museum recreates Melania Trump's RNC moment
The wax museum recreated Trump's look from last year's Republican National
Convention in Cleveland, where she took to the stage and spoke to party
delegates in a rousing speech.
** Why Moscow will never get a museum of migration
Russia has had the largest rate of net migration alongside Germany and the
USA, but not a single museum has appeared here to reflect that fact.
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** Museum of Plaster Figurines and Emigration
The link between these two seemingly disparate themes is crucial to the
history of the Tuscan hill town, Coreglia Antelminelli.
** Evaluating Heritage Education (Workshop)
Where and When is it?
** Fish Species Not Seen Since 1960s Thinks It Can Waltz Back Into Marine
Biologist’s Life
Apparently thinking nothing of casually showing up in its ecosystem as if
everything was hunky-dory, the blackfin cisco, a fish species not seen since
the 1960s, reportedly thought it could waltz back into local marine
biologist’s life just like that
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