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** From Byzantine banning to the Jeff Koons attack: the lamest art vandalism ever

The recent lacklustre spray-paint job on a Jeff Koons is nothing new in art ... rubbish vandals have always been with us

** Thousands explore wonders at museum warehouse

Thousands of adults and children set aside their smartphones and video games for an up-close look at nature's astounding biodiversity as the Canadian Museum of Nature opened its national collections and research labs for a day of public viewing

** Heirs to Nazi-confiscated NGV painting insist it was by van Gogh

The legal heirs to a painting held by the National Gallery of Victoria for more than 75 years are convinced it was the work of Vincent van Gogh, despite the Van Gogh Museum in the Netherlands decreeing that it was not created by the Dutch master

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** Porn Or Art: Marquis De Sade Still Shocking Paris 200 Years Later

The recently opened exhibition "Sade, attacking the sun" at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris carries an unusual warning – a first tip that this is not your normal cultural experience

** In Weft and Warp, Earth, Heaven and Hell

The Met's exhibition clarifies the tapestry-making process while also revealing the expressive power and stylistic consistency possible in works made by scores of hands other than the artist's

** Cambridge University reveals ancient sketch of couple in the act which vandalised star book

A passionate pencil portrait of a saucy couple, lewdly embracing at the foot of an otherwise untarnished page in one of the most famous and collectable books in English printing history, is one of the unexpected highlights of a new exhibition at Cambridge University showing how ancient books were used and abused

** Spanish museum to stage first Givenchy retrospective

The exhibition, curated by the 87-year-old designer himself, features about 100 of his finest pieces selected from museums and private collections around the world from a career spanning nearly five decades

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** 18th Century Witching Bottle Found

A green glass vessel could date from the witch hunts of the 18th century, when bottles were filled with fingernails, hair and urine possessing spell-stopping capabilities

** V&A's game designer releases game based on William Morris' Strawberry Thief

If William Morris were alive today, would the arts and crafts pioneer be designing computer games?

** How the last Gallipoli gunboat was saved

She is one of only two remaining warships from the First World War, and the only one to have served at Gallipoli, where 50,000 Allied servicemen died without gaining an inch of soil

** Victims of Syrian regime honoured at DC's Holocaust museum

A video installation of images smuggled out from Syria puts them in the context of the 20th century's greatest atrocity, and the impact is profound

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** Invasion of the giant spiders? Not quite

Giant spiders are invading Britain’s homes - if media reports this year are anything to go by - but are they dangerous? Read more.

** Bronze Warrior Chariot Discovery Is 'Find of a Lifetime'

The pieces are the metal remains of a chariot that once belonged to a warrior or noble, according to university archaeologist

** What's the right way to behave in a museum?

The Tumblr features photos Rodley finds online and some submissions of people looking at art in museums accompanied by a short critique of what is right or wrong about what they're doing

** Paul McCarthy hits back at French critics of his 'butt plug' sculpture

Stung by the public backlash against his giant green installation, Tree, which resembled a sex toy, McCarthy has been working on an "aggressive" response as part of an exhibition at the Paris Mint

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** Hubble Space Telescope 25th Anniversary Exhibit Opens

Astronaut Mike Massimino is sitting on the floor, completely fixated on the video showing him and his former space shuttle crewmates training underwater to upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope

** Lost At The Museum? This Ingenious 3-D Map Makes Navigation A Cinch

To help out confused museum-goers a Dutch graphic designer based in New York created the Paper Pathfinder for the Rijksmuseum

** San Diego Police Museum seeks a new home

It's a quirky place, hand-built and run by retired police officers who volunteer their time as goodwill ambassadors to law enforcement

** Around Amsterdam in 7 strange museums

Where Amsterdam excels, though, is in its extensive collections of curiosities - museums that celebrate the engagingly odd obsessions of their curators

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** 45,000-Year-Old Bone Pinpoints Era of Human-Neanderthal Sex

Unearthed by an ivory carver from a Siberian riverbank, a man's 45,000-year-old thigh bone reveals when people first mated with Neanderthals

** UK Heritage Lottery Fund endorses Liverpool museum project

A Napoleon death mask, exquisite Chinese porcelain and world-renowned Wedgwood jasperware are some of the incredible collections, amassed by one man, William Hesketh Lever, which will benefit from a major Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) grant.

** 2015 Getty Leadership Institute Applications Now Open

The Getty Leadership Institute at CGU invites applications for the GLI 2015 and NextGen 2015 executive education programs in museum leadership. GLI programs academically rigorous and address current topics in the museum field.

** This Week's Horoscopes

Libra - Some say the world will end in ice, some fire. However, the end of your personal world will be most notable for banal remarks on the humidity

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