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** Shady dealings of William Shakespeare’s father helped to fund son’s plays

The new research suggests that, far from going bust, John Shakespeare was reinvesting in wool and making even more money than ever, some of it via shady deals

** Art is universal – no country should claim a masterpiece for their own

The reason Greece is wrong to claim the Parthenon sculptures as an exclusive national property is the same reason that this is a noble agreement: because art is for everyone

** Philippine Gold: Treasures of Forgotten Kingdoms

More than half a millennium before Ferdinand Magellan reached the archipelago now called the Philippines in 1521, a number of related societies thrived there; little is known about them

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** Grisly death mask of Britain’s first train murderer among objects on display

This face belongs to Britain’s first train murderer - a man who became so famous for his crime and subsequent capture that he sparked a Victorian fashion trend

** Acropolis Now

In an ambitious restoration project (the biggest in modern history), which is now nearing completion, the world’s most famous ruin has been getting a facelift

** Major Ernest Hemingway exhibition opens in New York

The heavyweight of 20th-century literature is the focus of Ernest Hemingway: Between Two Wars, which will feature photographs, manuscripts, passports and even his dog tags at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York

** For Norwegian Museum, a Loss Produces a Gain

Curators realized that the large amount of new information coming out of the provenance research had a value beyond assuring the museum that they were not holding on to Nazi-era loot

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** We need more wealthy donors

The new director of the National Gallery, on billionaire benefactors, mobile phone selfies and why the museum must remain free

** Victoria & Albert Museum To Stage Fabric of India

The Fabric of India showcases more than 200 decorative and functional handmade objects, ranging from third-century textile fragments to contemporary clothing by designers Manish Arora, Sabyasachi Mukherjee and Rajesh Pratap

** Taiji Whale Museum quits aquarium body over dolphin hunt ban

The whale museum in the town of Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, has withdrawn from the national aquarium industry body in protest at its ban on accepting dolphins captured in drive hunts

** The art of the masters: drawing in silver and gold

Metalpoint is quite a complicated but mind-blowing drawing technique in which the draughtsman draws with a metal stylus or rod, either in silver or gold

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** The Museum That Resurrected a Slave Ship

The Smithsonian’s African American History Museum, with the help of a worldwide network of scholars, will display pieces of the formerly sunken São José

** Museum Has New Lead In Hunt For James Dean's Wrecked Porsche

The Volo Auto Museum says it has a credible tip regarding the whereabouts of James Dean's Porsche Spyder wreckage, missing since the early 1960s

** Stolen Picasso masterpiece 'La Coiffeuse' returned

A masterpiece of Cubism art by artist Pablo Picasso that was stolen more than a decade ago was returned to the Pompidou Centre after custom officials intercepted it in 2014 at a U.S. airport

** China's sites being plundered, bulldozed

The treasures of China's thousands of years of culture face being plundered, sometimes violently, or disappearing under bulldozers as authorities either do not care or do not have the resources to look after them, China's culture chief said

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** 10 top museum exhibits around the world this fall

Blockbuster shows, including a Picasso sculpture exhibit in New York, and others that promise to be sleeper hits

** Jack the Ripper museum ridiculed for urging Class War counter-protest

Privately run attraction issues statement through PR firm calling for local people to oppose planned demonstration by cereal cafe protesters

** Visiting scholar explores art of Persian carpets at Carnegie Museum of Art

Dadras, a visiting scholar in art history and architecture at the University of Pittsburgh, is teaching a group of curious adults at the Oakland museum about the ancient art of Persian carpet-weaving, a practice associated with the Persian Empire, which included modern-day Iran

** Marine Archaeologists Excavate Greek Antikythera Shipwreck

Archaeologists excavating the famous ancient Greek shipwreck that yielded the Antikythera mechanism have recovered more than 50 items including a bronze armrest (possibly part of a throne), remains of a bone flute, fine glassware, luxury ceramics, a pawn from an ancient board game, and several elements of the ship itself

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** Educating the ignorant masses, Eli Broad style

Eli Broad (rhymes with toad or goad) is a fantastically wealthy person who is a major collector of contemporary art

** Web links needed for open-air museums

EXARC is preparing a little guide for archaeological open-air museums.

** ICOM International Committee for Museums and Collections of Archaeology and History – ICMAH

International Conference, Thursday 12th and Friday 13th November 2015, at the Acropolis Museum, Athens

** Archaeologists Reconstruct Pretzel From Pieces Discovered In Des Moines

Heralding the discovery as the most complete specimen of its kind, a team of archaeologists from the University of Iowa announced Thursday that they had managed to reconstruct more than 75 percent of a Snyder’s of Hanover pretzel from fragments found at a Des Moines–area Stop ’N Go

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