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** Who Are the Most Influential Curators of the Last Century?

Curators are the rock stars of the contemporary art world—or maybe more like the superstar deejays, mixing together every aspect of the art experience into one vision.

** Fossil finds reveal plot twist in Australian whale tale

They provide new insights into how climate change has profoundly impacted the distribution of whales throughout the Earth’s oceans over millennia, and also point to how living species may be impacted by climate change, now with an added human dimension, in the future.

** Did work by artists like de Kooning, Renoir, Matisse and Monet decline in old age?

As a new London show opens of late works by Willem de Kooning who suffered from dementia, we look at other artists in old age and how their physical disabilities and cognitive decline impacted on their work.

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** Ocean Liners: Glamour, Speed, and Style

New styles of clothing, menus, and entertainment – including a piano from the SS Normandie – mark the transformation of life on board ships, culminating in a look at the modern cruise experience.

** Tutankhamun's second bed transferred to new Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza

The first gilded bed and a funeral chariot from Tutankhamun's tomb were transferred last May as part of a plan to move 1,000 artifacts to the GEM.

** Paris exhibition charts Picasso's 'year of wonders'

Some of Pablo Picasso’s greatest works have gone on display in Paris, in an exhibition that charts a pivotal year in which he cemented his status as a titan of 20th-century art.

** Museum hoping to uncover lost pieces of iconic mural

Missing pieces is not stopping the National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City from trying to collect the remnants of the Panthéon de la Guerre, an iconic work commemorating about 6,000 allied figures from the Great War.

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** Museum Discovers Old Masters' New Secrets As It Preps For Next Big Show

Conservation, restoration, and scholarship have altered the Johnson collection, in some cases radically — to the point where Johnson himself might not recognize what he was looking at

** The Craft of Creating Wall Texts at the Guggenheim

Most wall texts in the Guggenheim Museum are applied using silkscreen printing, a process more typically used on fabric or paper.

** The Dirty Secrets Saved in Dead Birds’ Feathers

Tucked away in the drawers of natural history museums across America’s Rust Belt, thousands of dead birds carry dirty secrets from America’s polluted past.

** British Museum and BBC team up to explore belief through objects

Patterns of shared belief and ritual over 40,000 years, from the ice age to the present day, are to be explored in an ambitious 30-part radio series and exhibition at the British Museum.

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** Beirut’s Museum of Memory opens first exhibition - minus a director or board of governors

The Museum of Memory in Beirut, a four-storey Art Deco building that was a sniper's lair during Lebanon's civil war, has opened its first formal exhibition with a focus on people missing from the conflict.

** V&A Security Arrangement Is Confusing, Dangerous & Unsatisfactory

The safety and security of our visitors, staff and volunteers is paramount, and the current arrangements are confusing, dangerous and unsatisfactory.

** What Europe's most ancient battlefield reveals

The Gross Raden Archaeological Open Air Museum is presenting an exhibition featuring archaeological artifacts from the Bronze Age, many of them found on the site of a battle which took place in the Tollense Valley, in the northeast of Germany.

** Imperial War Museum in clash over planned Holocaust memorial

In an extraordinary intervention, the Imperial War Museum (IWM) is calling for the plan for an educational complex below the memorial to be reconsidered because it will compete with its own new Holocaust centre, opening in 2020, less than a mile away.

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** Axe Linked to Ötzi the Iceman Found North of the Alps

The axe was discovered in Zug-Riedmatt, one of the many pile-dwelling villages around the Alps that are famous for their prehistoric wooden houses built on stilts on lakeshores and other wetlands.

** Museum to unveil replica of first detonated nuclear bomb

The National Museum of Nuclear Science and History is primed to unveil its newest piece of history — a replica of the world's first nuclear bomb to be detonated.

** The best family-friendly museums in the UK

Science, technology, art or history … Guardian readers recommend fun and educational museums around the country in time for half-term.

** Perot Museum welcomes its own rock star

Billed as a rock star in the gem and mineral world, the Ausrox Gold Nugget was discovered by three prospectors in the Eastern Goldfield of Australia.

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** Snapchat Is Working With the Artist Jeff Koons

The AR lenses will be available at each location for a couple of weeks before they move on to a new spot, and users can track the whereabouts of the lenses on a microsite.

** Call for Proposals: Digital Initiatives Symposium 2018

The Digital Initiatives Symposium at the University of San Diego

** Can We Do That?: Intellectual Property Rights and Visual Media

The Visual Resources Association Foundation

** AAMG & UMAC Conference 2018

June 21-24, 2018

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Snapchat Is Working With the Artist Jeff Koons

The AR lenses will be available at each location for a couple of weeks before they move on to a new spot, and users can track the whereabouts of the lenses on a microsite.

Call for Proposals: Digital Initiatives Symposium 2018

The Digital Initiatives Symposium at the University of San Diego

Can We Do That?: Intellectual Property Rights and Visual Media

The Visual Resources Association Foundation

AAMG & UMAC Conference 2018

June 21-24, 2018

This Week's Horoscopes

Gemini - You’ve always been afraid of someone washing your mouth out with soap, but that was before you learned they made a special mouth-soap in the form of a minty paste.

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