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** Money wasted on managers in museums

I worked for nearly 40 years as a specialist curator in a national museum and have watched with horror the increasing separation between management and specialist staff.

** Can a New Domain Finally Bring the Art World Into the 21st Century?

By investing in the domain, .art, Ulvi Kasimov hopes to bring digital order to a market that can suffer from mystery, forgery, and an aversion to new technological tools.

** Smithsonian exhibition is premiere event in a yearlong centennial celebration

The museum’s presentation of “American Visionary” is the première event in the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum’s yearlong, nationwide celebration that commemorates Kennedy’s centennial year.

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** Enter the World of Music in these Japanese Music Box Museums

The oldest music box, invented by Swiss watchmaker Antoine Favre in 1796, is on display at the Kyoto Arashiyama Orgel Museum.

** Liverpool's World Museum opens the doors of its new Ancient Egypt gallery

The new, enhanced gallery sees around 1,000 key objects displayed including many items that have never been on public display before such as a recently identified statue part of Nefertiti and two mummy masks, including one with a magnificent representation of the vulture goddess Nekhbet.

** J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis bonded over their mutual hatred of Walt Disney

While both authors are renowned for creating elaborately surreal universes of magical wardrobes and Middle-Earth, Tolkien and Lewis also appear to have invented the sort of shady, Twitter-friendly hate-watch we all take for granted today.

** Ancient Horse DNA Shows Scythian Warriors Were Adept Domesticators

Horses sacrificed by fierce nomads living in Central Asia more than 2,000 years ago have provided new insights into how people tamed the wild animals and bred them to their needs.

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** The World Expo Museum is now open in Shanghai

Built near the Lupu Bridge on the Puxi side of the former expo site, the museum contains eight permanent exhibition halls which are crammed full of 3,000 exhibits from past World Expo.

** Museum of Migration Opens in London

The free museum is dedicated to documenting and exploring how people have moved to and from Britain over the years—and it’s opening at a time of widespread debate about the country’s approach to migration.

** Black history has been whitewashed

Schoolchildren who visit the First White House of the Confederacy learn that its famous former resident, President Jefferson Davis, was leader of a 'heroic resistance' who was 'held by his Negroes in genuine affection as well as highest esteem."

** Scientists Recover Ancient DNA From Cave Dirt

Sifting through teaspoons of clay and sand scraped from the floors of caves, German researchers have managed to isolate ancient human DNA — without turning up a single bone.

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** Ancient carvings show comet hit Earth and triggered mini ice age

Ancient symbols carved into stone at an archaeological site in Turkey tell the story of a devastating comet impact that triggered a mini ice age more than 13,000 years ago.

** Exploding Two Myths About Vermeer

To many people, for whom Vermeer is a byword for artistic perfection, a statement about his lack of originality will sound startling.

** ‘Encyclopaedic’ Brooklyn Museum Vies for Contemporary Attention

Though the Guggenheim, according to many accounts, made Ms. Spector an offer she couldn’t refuse, her departure nevertheless suggested that an encyclopaedic museum — or perhaps one run by Ms. Pasternak — was not for her.

** Was Robert Rauschenberg The Con Man Of Art?

There was something of the outrageousness of a Ponzi scheme in the way he took this or that avant-garde idea and inflated it—over and over again.

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** Masur Museum conserves smoke-damaged art

The museum has approximately 650 works of art in the permanent collection storage; between 80 percent and 90 percent of the collection was damaged as a result of the fire.

** Museum's latest addition digs deep into gaming history

Adams' donation includes some of the code for the earliest commercially available computer games, along with printed source code, promotional materials, photographs, magazines, comic books and other documentation.

** Ten Things to Know About the New Frost Science Museum

In the museum's three-building complex, visitors will find awe-inspiring displays, from feathered oddities to mechanical artists.

** How museum curators deal with the issue of race

People have hearings, talk about how museums are essential to human experience, but then come back and charge exorbitant rates.

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** The Mystery of Roanoke Endures Yet Another Cruel Twist

Nearly 20 years ago, excavators digging on North Carolina’s remote Hatteras Island uncovered a worn ring emblazoned with a prancing lion.

** Free Photographic Process Identification Webinars

This webinar series, funded by The National Endowment for the Humanities, and presented by the Image Permanence Institute is free and open for all to attend

** Documentation: Past, Present, Future..."

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** US Congress Gives the Arts a Funding Boost

Congress has reached a bipartisan agreement on a bill to fund the nation’s federal agencies and programs for the remaining balance of the current FY2017 fiscal year

** This Week's Horoscopes

Virgo - Future archaeologists will find your desiccated skeleton exactly where you starved, midway between two 64-ounce bags of Bugles

The Mystery of Roanoke Endures Yet Another Cruel Twist

Nearly 20 years ago, excavators digging on North Carolina’s remote Hatteras Island uncovered a worn ring emblazoned with a prancing lion.

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