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** Experts say painting bought for $25 in 1899 could be an original Raphael
BBC experts examining the amazing art collection at the National Trust for
Scotland's Haddo House in Aberdeenshire have discovered two very important
paintings, including a piece that is 'probably by' Raphael
** British Museum broke own rules over BP sponsorship Campaigners say
The British Museum rejects accusation they have broken their own rules by
not allowing trustees to help decide whether or not to renew a five-year
sponsorship deal with BP, activists have claimed
** Researchers reconstruct beautiful house in Pompeii by using 3D
technology
By combining traditional archaeology with 3D technology, researchers at Lund
University in Sweden have managed to reconstruct a house in Pompeii to its
original state before the volcano eruption of Mount Vesuvius thousands of
years ago
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** Is It Ethical For A Museum To Mount A Show Where The 'Guest Curator'
Owns Most Of The Art?
When a museum turns over its exhibition galleries to a private collector,
you begin to wonder just what professional purpose the museum serves
** Fate Catches Up to a Cultural Revolution Museum in China
Workers arrived bearing concrete, propaganda banners and metal scaffolding;
they smoothed concrete over the names of victims, wrapped "Socialist Core
Values" banners around the main exhibition hall, placed red-and-yellow
propaganda posters over stone memorials to the terror, and raised
scaffolding around statues of critics of Mao
** How the Brooklyn Museum Cares for Its Collection
Walking through the conservation lab is like getting an overview of the
different specialties in the field: textiles over here, ceramics over there,
paintings down this way, and paper-based works in the back
** Hats, Apples, Umbrellas, A Pipe That Is Not A Pipe
The Belgian philosopher/surrealist/manipulative artist who gave us a laugh
with a chicken looking at a soft-boiled egg, or a hat without a head resting
on a stiff shirt collar
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** The rise of museum stores as retail destinations
Forget exit through the gift shop, the latest wave of museum shops are
retail destinations, rather than exhibition afterthoughts
** Trump denied use of NC civil rights museum
The International Civil Rights Center and Museum in Greensboro denied Donald
Trump's request to hold an event at the museum - and has faced retaliation
from his supporters because of it, according to the museum's CEO
** Beautiful, Stirring, and Overcrowded
The many small successes, and one large failure, of the Smithsonian's
National Museum of African American History and Culture
** The Met Gets Sued For One Of Its Best Picassos
The Met curators describe it as a "simple yet haunting" work that marked the
beginning of Picasso's interest in "the theatrical world of acrobats and
saltimbanques."
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** The Ancient City Of Petra Had Gardens, Fountains, And A Swimming Pool
Cool fountains and a huge pool in mid-desert enabled by strikingly advanced
stone-carved irrigation and water storage system
** Will Our Phones Be Essential Tools When We Visit The Museum?
About five years ago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art took a small step that
has proved monumental: It stopped entreating visitors not to use their cell
phones
** Walls that gave up Nazi secrets to be preserved in new museum
Several of the rooms at Trent Park where the German prisoners socialised -
and the walls through which their conversations were recorded - will now be
restored and preserved for posterity
** Van Gogh masterpieces stolen 14 years ago recovered from barn
Italian police have found two Van Gogh paintings that were stolen from an
Amsterdam museum in 2002 hidden in a farmhouse near an organized crime
syndicate's Naples-area stronghold
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** The Story Behind the Bulletproof Photo Craze
Before internet memes, before Reddit, even before performance artists like
Chris Burden took aim, swaths of vest salesmen hawked their wares with such
proto-viral stunts
** 'Wee museum' appeal
Unique exhibits include the only stuffed Highland cow in Scotland, the 8ft
high Caledonian Shield for Scottish rifle shooting and a letter from Canada
in 1906, clearly written on birch bark by local emigrant to his relations in
Killiecrankie
** How Rival Gardens of Eden in Iraq Survived ISIS, Dwindling Tourists, And
Each Other
Even those who concede the mythological nature of the Garden of Eden still
have the desire to locate it, as I did last May while driving to the
frontline in northern Iraq
** Site Of Interest - Surprises from the Ice
Website says that although there were only a few recorded discoveries made
on the ice in Norway at the end of the 20th century, things changed with a
warmer autumn in 2006
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** Seafaring and Shipbuilding in Greece from antiquity to modern times
The history of Greek seafaring and shipbuilding gives visitors a chance to
take a mental trip back in time, to discover the close and timeless
relationship of the Greek people with the sea
** 2017 NAEA Museum Education Preconference
"Diversity and Inclusion: Art Museum Museum Educators as Levers of Change "
will take place on Wednesday, March 1, 2017
** Across the Oceans: the Local Connections and Global Dimensions of
China's Maritime Silk Road
Special Exhibition Gallery, Hong Kong Museum of History
** Archives, Advocacy and Change: Tales from Four New York City Collections
Date: Wednesday, October 26, 2016
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