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** A flatly false claim by new Whitney Museum Says Critic
Being misquoted is one thing, but being completely misrepresented in an art
museum wall text is quite another - especially when something I wrote more
than 20 years ago is used as a slur concocted from the direct opposite of my
critical opinion
** Something Is Desperately Wrong With the Tate and Is Nicholas Serota to
Blame?
Tate Britain's troubles are really the product of the complicated and fudged
status of Tate's cultural remit
** How The Internet Has Changed The Practice Of Art
Before the internet, we all thought of art as a one-way phenomenon: there
were creators and there were consumers
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** Maybe The Best Place To Store Your Favorite Photos Is On Old-Fashioned
Paper
While the MoMA can afford to hire a whole team of people to tend to its
digital archives, the rest of us have fewer resources
** Archaeologists to reconsider origins of industrial era obesity and
cancer
Some of London's most important skeletons will be digitally x-rayed and
scanned in a new archaeological investigation linking "man-made" diseases
with the industrialisation of the city
** A quacking installation at London's V&A
Following mixed reviews of the V&A's All of This Belongs to You
exhibition-consisting of a series of artistic interventions in the museum's
building and collection-it appears that a pair of mating mallards are keen
to get in on the act
** How Sailors' Love Tokens Got Into Women's Underwear
It might surprise you to learn that in the early 19th century a young man in
Europe or America might give his sweetheart a token of love she could wear
inside her corset.
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** Le Corbusier exhibition glosses over architect's fascist past
The Pompidou Centre in Paris has hit back at critics who say its Le
Corbusier exhibition, which opened to the public on 29 April, glosses over
recent accusations that the Swiss-born French architect was a militant
fascist with links to the Vichy regime
** The gran tour: meet the retired Londoners taking on a museum marathon
They're currently on week 67 of their attempt to visit and blog about every
single one of the city's 240-or-so cultural institutions - a task they
estimate will take them half a decade at their current rate of visiting one
place a week
** Long-delayed Nazi museum to open in Munich
The inauguration coincided with the 70th anniversary of the "liberation" of
Munich by US troops at the end of World War II, and of Adolf Hitler's
suicide the same day in a Berlin bunker
** What is Britain's best museum to take children?
From dressing up as Vikings to making fake dinosaur bones, from Elgin to
Eastbourne and from massive museums to one-room galleries, these are the
nominations
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** Beijing's Palace Museum shuts the door on 'maverick' designs
When work starts on the new northern area for Beijing's Palace Museum, also
known as the Forbidden City, "maverick architecture" will not be allowed
** How public identified a fake painting at the Dulwich Picture Gallery
Britain remains a nation of "art connoisseurs", according to the chief
curator of a London gallery after a fake old master slipped into a
collection of works on permanent display was the one most frequently
identified as a copy
** Nepal earthquake destroys Kathmandu valley's architectural treasures
Dharahara tower and Kasthamandap temple among historic sites reduced to
rubble by deadly quake, but heritage experts retain glimmer of hope
** The Story of the Bikini, the World's Smallest Swimsuit
Named after Bikini Atoll, a coral reef in the Marshall Islands where nuclear
weapons were tested, Diana Vreeland referred to the new suit as "the atomic
bomb of fashion."
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** How Syrians Saved an Ancient Seedbank From Civil War
If these seeds were decimated, humanity could lose precious genetic
resources developed over hundreds, or in some cases thousands, of years
** Museum registrar is guardian of priceless masterpieces
How does a priceless, oversized Renaissance painting get from its home in
Florence to an exhibit at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum? Very
carefully
** In This Museum, Visitors Can Eat At The Exhibits
It may be one of the only museums where it is OK, even encouraged, to eat
and drink in the museum
** The Adorable and Heroic Animals of the Museum of Maritime Pets
The museum tells many tails (pun intended): there's Sinbad the Coast Guard
dog, adopted by the Coast Guard cutter ship Campbell in 1938, who became
such a part of the crew that he was given enlistment forms, a uniform and
even his own bunk
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** Long Hidden Scythian Treasure Site Located
A farmer made an amazing discovery more than 130 years ago in a field
outside Vettersfelde (now Witaszkowo) Poland
** Out of the Ordinary: Preserving Paper-Based Ephemera
Presented by the Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts
** EAGLE
Europeana network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy International
Conference
** Ambassadors of Dialogue
ICOMAM-ICDAD Congress in 2015
** This Weeks Horoscopes
Aries - A shocking revelation will shake you to the core of your being this
week, which is odd, because it's merely the fact that the Doobie Brothers
aren't actual brothers.
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