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** Paintings Have Become Increasingly Blue

A Ph.D. student decided to download pictures of paintings—over 130,000 of them—to see how their dominant colors changed between 1800 and 2000

** 'Terror birds' had deep voices, fossil suggests

A 90%-complete "terror bird" skeleton found on an Argentinean beach suggests these big-beaked predators had good low-frequency hearing and deep voices

** Making Art Tied to Fewer Cognitive Problems in Old Age

A just-published study from the Mayo Clinic points to yet another activity that, consistently pursued for decades, may be even more effective at warding off cognitive decline: making art

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** Swords, Sleight of Hand and a Speaking Mummy

The Luxor Mummy originally belonged to Alexander Pantages, the owner of a vaudeville theater chain, who claimed that it was a seer and prophet named Ra Ra Ra

** The scourge of the bronze zombies: how terrible statues are ruining art

The art that once gave us Michelangelo’s David and Rodin’s Burghers of Calais has degenerated into a cynical province of second-rate hacks who are filling up city squares, railway stations and other public spaces all over the world with ugly, stupid and occasionally terrifying parodies of the human form

** Whitney's curators explore wide open spaces of new downtown home

Curators worked closely with the architect Renzo Piano to create a building tailored to the Whitney’s collection but flexible enough to accommodate whatever artists might dream up in the future

** We can only imagine the horrific injuries

15th century War of the Roses handgun blew apart when soldier attempted to use it during bloody battle more than 550 years ago

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** Neil MacGregor made running the British Museum look easy

Although it would be a cliché to talk of following a hard act, his successor will unenviably inherit an institution that has been remoulded and to some extent reinvented on his idiosyncratic template

** When the World Went Pop

Some works by American artists were so valuable they carried enormous insurance burdens, while works from countries like Brazil, Argentina, Hungary and Japan had to be “excavated” from storage or artists’ own collections, where they have sat, little seen, for decades

** Preserving specimen collections the goal for museum group formed at Field

The Field and 11 other leading natural history museums are forming a new group focused primarily on managing their invaluable specimen collections

** Preservation or plunder? The battle over the British Museum’s Indigenous Australian show

If the Ngambri people went to England, killed 90% of the population and everything else that is indigenous to England and sent the crown jewels back to Ngambri Country as a prize exhibit … what would the remaining 10% of English people have to say about that? Read more.

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** This Is What Happens When You Bring Nudists To An Art Museum

The tours usually take place after hours, when the "skyclad" spectators - that's the official modifier for nude art tour enthusiasts - can soak up masterpieces without the prying eyes of more puritanical admirers

** New Jersey's love affair with diners blossoms in museum exhibit

The seven-room exhibit begins with the history of the diner, which began not in New Jersey but in Providence Rhode Island in 1872 by a man named Walter Scott who decided to provide food with a lunch wagon for an underserved group

** Hawaii museum to unveil artifacts lost in shipwreck 191 years ago

Hawaiian King's treasures lost in shipwreck 191 years ago and retrieved by divers finally returned to its homeland and set to go on display

** Smirk of art: Dallas museum prankster's satirical display makes us laugh – at him

Teen philistine clearly doesn’t get modern art if he thinks everyday objects can’t be used to create conceptual masterpieces

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** Japanese museum finally exhibits details of live dissection of US prisoners of war

It has taken seven decades for a small section of a new museum at Kyushu University to reveal details of the horrifying medical experiments

** A British Museum Is Showing Off a MacBook Air

It’s the laptop Guardian employees destroyed in 2013, at the behest of British intelligence officials, because the paper had used it to store data leaked from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden

** The Volcanic Link To Munch's The Scream

The red skies in Edvard Munch’s famous 1893 painting The Scream are now thought to reflect the eerie twilights seen in Norway for months after Krakatoa’s eruption

** A taste of archaeology by making, throwing spears

Making an atlatl and learning how to throw it opens a window for budding anthropologists or archaeologists to understand the past

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** Why scientists want Singapore's coral to spawn in London

A collection of live corals collected from two reefs off the Singapore have been transported to the Horniman Museum in London

** Connecting Your Collections to Teachers and Students

The registration for AASLH’s Connecting Your Collections to Teachers and Students workshop scheduled for June 17-18 in Chicago, IL, is now open

HistoricPlacesLA Launches

In parallel to the GCI and World Monuments Fund's development of Arches the GCI, working with the City of Los Angeles, has created HistoricPlacesLA.

** Emerging Trends

We are pleased to announce the registration on Annual Conference of ICOM International Committee for Marketing and Public Relations (MPR) in 2015 open

** This Week's Horoscopes

Scorpio - You'll try to play both sides against each other for personal gain, proving again why you are the worst chess player ever

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