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** Video Shows Brazen Theft of Paintings From Verona Museum

Italian officials have arrested 12 people in connection with the brazen theft in November of 17 paintings, including works by Pisanello and Rubens, from a museum in Verona

** Flame-scarred artefacts of the Great Fire of London on display for the first time

The 350-year-old iron artefacts will be displayed at a new exhibition to mark the anniversary of the London disaster

** Scientists Identify the Fungi Clouding Leonardo’s Self-Portrait

A red chalk sketch from around 1512 CE, long believed to be a self-portrait by Leonardo da Vinci, has a glowering, bearded man’s face emerging from a swarm of brown spots

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** Why Art And Science Are More Closely Related Than You Think

Both scientists and artists with nothing new to reveal are failures. Scientists and artists who cannot communicate their insights are failures. It takes both skills to make a successful scientist or artist

** Roman treasures to go on show after four decades in storage

For four decades the Torlonia collection of 620 statues and sarcophagi from the Roman empire, including busts of Julius Caesar and sculptures of the gods, has lain in the basement of a stately home, collecting dust, while successive governments have tried and failed to persuade its owners to do the right thing – and let the world see it

** Terrorism destroyed this museum – but VR has brought it back to life

The Mosul Museum was the second largest museum in Iraq until it was destroyed by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant fighters in February 2015

** You Complete Me (Why Art Critics Are Essential)

I don’t see my job as mainly that of making or breaking artists’ reputations, or of informing collectors or curators what they ought to buy or exhibit

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** MA urges museums to take part in major workforce survey

Arts Council England (ACE) is funding a major new survey of museum professionals, aiming to build up a comprehensive picture of the skills and attributes that will be needed by the sector’s workforce in the future

** Mind your money: money matters

As we lifted the lid on boxes of enigmatic artifacts, money started to appear in all sorts of unexpected guises, unusual materials, shapes and sizes

** In Late Antiquity Textiles, a Long-Lasting Fashion Show

Rare samplings of the motifs and materials of textiles in the Mediterranean world from the third through the seventh century A.D. reflect the wealth and social standing of the elite at the time of the Roman Empire’s greatest reach, and then its decline — a period known as Late Antiquity

** Art Museums Seek a Green Palette

As new museums sprout up around the country, administrators and architects are incorporating sustainable features throughout the design process, from green roofs and “living walls” of plants to subterranean passageways filled with energy-saving technologies

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** A hidden section of a 17th century tapestry cartoon found in a seam

Hidden panels of the earliest examples of the English tapestry industry, based on Renaissance painter Raphael's cartoons of Acts of the Apostles, have been discovered in a seam at Derbyshire's Chatsworth House

** When Art Falls Apart

In a project called Nanorestart (the idea is to use nanomatierials to restore art) a consortium of 27 museums, universities, and chemical companies—financially supported by the European Union—began to tackle four tasks in 2015

** Spanish town looks to revive botched restored fresco success

More than three years after a botched fresco restoration by an octogenarian painter became a major tourist attraction for a northern Spanish town, local officials looking to inject new life into the phenomenon opened a center that celebrates the fresco

** European Museums Are Shifting to American Way of Giving

Museums in the United States, helped by favourable tax laws, are sustained by a culture of giving by private donors and a universe of trained development officials

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** Watch a Two-Week Museum Installation Process, in Just Two Minutes

When Rashid Johnson did the site inspection for his upcoming commission at the Garage Museum in Moscow, the Rem Koolhaas-designed museum was still incomplete

** Imagining an Alarming Future at Brazil's Museum of Tomorrow

Each installation incorporates scientist-outlined visions of where the planet is headed in regard to climate change, population size, lifespan, technology, biodiversity and cultural integration—and points to the possibility of a more sustainable future

** The Mystery Of The Illinois Tully Monster solved

The Tully Monster has been a mystery to scientists for decades, until now, after scientists looked at it in many ways, including examining 1,200 of the 1,800 Tully Monster fossils in the Field Museum collection

** With Museum Shows in Europe, Barbie Gets Her Moment With the Masters

The doll beloved by generations of girls is having a moment among the masters this year, with a flurry of international museum shows that trace her cultural evolution over almost six decades, through silk dresses and stiletto heels, sports cars, fold-out houses, and the accoutrements of more than 150 occupations, including astronaut, pet stylist and president

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** Museum of Lost Objects: Looted Sumerian Seal

In April 2003, almost the entire collection of ancient cylinder seals was stolen from the Iraq Museum in Baghdad - and it remains missing

** Out of the Showcase

The 18th European Association of Museums of the History of Medical Sciences biennial Congress

** Exploring The Historic Connection of Chia Seeds in Mexican Art and Culture

The Mexican Museum

** Intermuseum 2016

ICOM Russia is pleased to launch the call for papers for the business program of the International museum festival “Intermuseum 2016”

** 2016 National Digital Stewardship Residency Symposium

On May 5, 2016, the 2015-2016 Washington, D.C. cohort of National Digital Stewardship Residents will present a symposium entitled “Digital Frenemies: Closing the Gap in Born-Digital and Made-Digital Curation”

** New Evidence Suggests Early Humans First Used Fire To Impress Friends

Based on the locations and prevalence of burn marks at the site, we can infer that fire was initially utilized by early humans to show off in front of one another, typically by leaping over a flaming pit or passing their hands quickly back and forth across the flame of a burning log [Humour]

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