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** Chinese art stolen from France's Fontainebleau palace

Thieves have broken into Fontainebleau palace and stolen 15 Chinese artefacts in a lightning raid, the French culture ministry reports

** China’s First Design Museum for Kids is Made Entirely of Glass

The educational design space is located in a former industrial workshop, which has been transformed with kaleidoscopic patterns, natural materials and contrasting sleek blackened glass surfaces

** Like opening a tin can

Site Director Matthew Morris on opening the coffin of a mystery woman found in the friary where Richard III was discovered

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** Strange creatures and art of the unknown

The kongouro , the overstuffed marsupial painted by George Stubbs who had never seen the living animal, will be joined in an exhibition by an armour plated rhinoceros, an elephant carrying the population of a small village on its back, a double-jointed lion, and other creations of centuries of artists struggling to represent sights unseen

** Will robots help the bedridden see the world?

Kavita Krishnaswamy hasn't left her house in six years, but that hasn't stopped her from wandering around the Seattle Art Museum and taking in concerts at the National Music Museum in South Dakota

** Giddy up! The subversive sculpture on the fourth plinth is a dark horse

In a vulgar and somewhat dismissive speech before unveiling the horse, London mayor Boris Johnson took the sculpture as an image of London’s regeneration under Tory rule, flogging not just a dead horse but also George Osborne’s economic policies

** Audubon’s Aviary: The Final Flight

Hung in a single, compact gallery on the museum’s second floor, the show underlines the natural wealth of the American land, and Audubon’s remarkable talent for producing art as varied as his subject matter

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** Jawbone Fossil Fills a Gap in Early Human Evolution

The 2.8-million-year-old jawbone of a Homo habilis predates by at least 400,000 years any previously known Homo fossils

** The Chemistry of Why van Gogh Reds Are Going White

Van Gogh loved the vibrant lead pigment colours, and the red in “Wheat Stack” turned out to contain a rare mineral lead called plumbonacrite that through light exposure was gradually coated in carbonates that were causing the discoloration

** Profile of an Ancient Glassmaker

If the name Ennion is familiar to you, you probably are a scholar or collector of ancient glassware, and you’ll appreciate a small exhibition of ancient glassware at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

** Islamic State extremists hit 3,000-year-old city of Nimrud with bulldozers

There have been fears that Islamic State would target Nimrud, after it used drills and sledgehammers to vandalise museums and antiquities in Mosul and Nineveh last week, around 30km to the north

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** Bjork's Museum of Modern Art retrospective is a massive missed opportunity

On paper, this sounded like a fantastically novel way to integrate all those objects with music, but the execution felt cheap and sloppy

** Museum reopening boosts Iraqi national pride

Even as Iraq mourned the destruction of priceless artefacts by jihadists in Mosul, the national museum in Baghdad brought joy and pride to visitors as it opened its doors for the first time in 12 years

** Turkish President Erdogan fined 10,000 lira for calling statue a 'monstrosity'

Mehmet Aksoy's Monument to Humanity featured two human figures towering 30 metres above the eastern city of Kars, and was designed to symbolise reconciliation between Turkey and Armenia

** Terminally ill woman's dying wish to see Rembrandt exhibition granted

The unnamed 78-year-old woman was wheeled into Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum on a hospital bed, and was able to enjoy a hugely popular exhibition of Rembrandt paintings in a private viewing

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** New fashion museum exhibit documents Lauren Bacall

More than six months after her death, student curators at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology have managed to capture both sides of Bacall in an intimate new exhibit

** Russia's gulag museum 'makes no mention' of Stalin's atrocities

The new plan for the museum leaves “no talk of Stalin”, the group says, and downplays any political significance of the site, focusing only on its day-to-day functioning

** Exploring the Egyptian Museum

The overwhelming Egyptian Museum is an extensive enterprise, housing over 120,000 items and including everything from sarcophagi to papyrus

** New Pompidou museum chief in French nepotism row

The naming of a political insider with no art background to run Paris's Centre Pompidou modern art museum has triggered charges that France's credibility in the world of culture will suffer as a result of nepotism

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** Dubai's $136M Museum of the Future will be full of robots and their inventors

The $136 million building is being built near Dubai's financial district, just a seven-minute drive from the famous Burj Khalifa skyscraper — the tallest man-made structure in the world

** The Textile Museum Grand Opening & Keynote Lectures

Saturday, March 21

** The Invention of Leisure Study Series

The Johnston Collection - Melbourne

** 12th Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems

Shenyang, China from August 16-20, 2015

** This Week's Horoscopes

Aquarius - You'll continue to inspire those closest to you to try and move away as quickly and quietly as possible

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