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** As It Was Haemorrhaging Money, Met Museum Paid Big Bonuses To Senior Execs

The Metropolitan Museum of Art doled out hefty pay raises and six-figure bonuses to top executives despite a looming deficit that threatened to reach $40 million, records show

** Drinking In the Art: Museums Offer a Growing Banquet for the Senses

As visitors strolled through a recent display of Madame de Pompadour’s coffee grinder, an 1840s Sèvres porcelain coffee set, tea canisters, sugar bowls and other European decorative arts at the Detroit Institute of Arts, the scent of roasted coffee beans arose in one room

** Going To The Dogs?

The American Kennel Club has announced that they'll be relocating their Museum of the Dog to New York from St. Louis, bringing one of the largest collections of dog art to a city that goes ga-ga for a good, adorable dog

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** Michelangelo and Sebastiano – of gods and men

Placing Michelangelo’s work alongside that of his plodding friend, Sebastiano, highlights the artist’s astounding and visionary creativity

** German Art Collectors Face a Painful Past: Do I Own Nazi Loot?

As one generation of Germans has died and given its art to the next, a number of people with prominent collections and unsettled consciences have stepped forward to investigate what they own

** A Roman Sarcophagus Is Rescued from Humble Duty as a Flower Pot

When an antiques expert visited Blenheim Palace in England on official business about a year ago, he happened to notice an ornately carved marble piece that was being used as a planter in one of the estate’s gardens

** Museums Chart a Response to Political Upheaval

Should a museum change with the events around it, or should it stand true, like an immovable rock, as political storms come and go?

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** Never-Before-Seen Rodin Work To Be Displayed For First Time

A sculpture by Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) is due to go on public display for the first time at the Musée Rodin in Paris this month, thanks to the efforts of conservators

** A Start Date for the Bison Invasion of North America

Scientists have set out to chronicle when the massive, furry beasts first crossed into North America from Asia via the Bering land bridge because that event was the beginning of a striking change in the ecology of the continent

** How to Get the Brain to Like Art

This museum director want to harness the lessons of brain science to make the museum more engaging as attendance is falling around the country

** The Admission Fees Are Too Damn High

Here is the dilemma: Museums continue to struggle with how to attract younger and diverse audiences while maintaining and enacting high admissions fees

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** Children's Museum buys 3,250-piece Batman collection

A new acquisition will bring thousands of pieces of Batman memorabilia out of a local fan’s basement and into the collection of the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis

** Memoir unveils days and nights in the museum

You may not have heard of Karl Katz, but you probably know the many museums in the United States and Israel he helped create and shape

** New Museum For Language Buffs

Rhetorical analysis will be a key focus: visitors will be invited to admire and parse the ways words influence a person’s worldview, persuade people to part with their money or votes, and tilt the power dynamic between individuals and groups

** Hitler painting on show for first time at Italy museum

It's a painting by a hopeless man, it could have been done by Kafka, it says a lot about his psyche: here you do not see greatness, you see misery

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** A Golden Age for Museums in the Persian Gulf

Since the turn of the millennium, emirates of the Gulf have been in a museum-building campaign, recruiting Pritzker-winning architects to design elaborate structures, and partnering with major Western cultural institutions

** Scars of looting, destruction all that remain at Mosul museum

Ornithologists have suggested that they might be colour mutations, surviving members of species that soon became extinct, or interspecies hybrids that occurred only once

** Look on my works, ye mighty … Ozymandias statue found in mud

Archaeologists from Egypt and Germany have found an eight-metre (26ft) statue submerged in groundwater in a Cairo slum that they say probably depicts revered Pharaoh Ramses II

** Field Museum shows off its backstage treasures

It is 7,500 square feet of worms in fluid in their jars, of dinosaur bones still in their "field jackets" of surrounding stone, and of the stories behind such items

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** Neanderthal Dental Plaque Shows What a Paleo Diet Really Looks Like

Neanderthal dental plaque is a precious commodity, so it’s a little embarrassing when you’re trying to dislodge a piece and it goes flying across the room

** US / Saudi Arabia Visits

King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture has embarked on a program to invite 50 US Cultural Influencers to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia throughout 2017

** Heritage, Decolonisation and the Field: A Conference

Date: 26-27 January 2018

** Money and Banking Museums: from display to engagement

ICOMON Jakarta 2017

** This Week's Horoscopes

Leo - You will soon meet the greatest love of your life, which, unfortunately, has less to do with the quality of the former than the brevity of the latter

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