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** So You Want to Date a New York Museum

Five months later, you start seeing him everywhere and suddenly all anyone is talking about is the Whitney and his “biennial.” (satire)

** Diving into the tale of the prehistoric age to discover Neanderthals

For its new grand temporary exhibition, Musée de l’Homme dives into the tale of the prehistoric age to discover Neanderthals: a species that for a long time was considered to be primitive and bestial, is now recognized as full-fledged human beings.

** How Picasso’s Journey From Prodigy to Icon Revealed a Genius

He worked voraciously, reinventing his style at a rapid pace—his blue and rose periods, the African period, cubism, surrealism—creating thousands of sculptures, drawings, copperplate etchings, ceramics, and paintings.

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** Artists and Curators Weigh In on Baltimore Museum’s Move to Deaccession Works

After a newspaper article that explicitly linked the upcoming sale of Baltimore Museum of Art art by white men with the purchase of works by women and people of colour, some critics took it further, likening the practice to historical affirmative action at its worst.

** I've seen people hugging sculptures

Statistics from five leading UK sculpture parks and attractions show a major increase in footfall, as more people become interested in outdoor art and larger pieces of work.

** Bernini masterpiece loses a finger on its way back to Rome church

A statue of Saint Bibiana by Italian master Gian Lorenzo Bernini had a finger knocked off as it was returned from an exhibition in the Galleria Borghese.

** Digital Forensics Reconstructs Seven Lost Masterpieces

The biggest art heist in history, a Monet destroyed in a fire at one of the world’s top museums and an unflattering portrait of a prime minister used as kindling for a midnight bonfire are three of the stories presented in Mystery of the Lost Paintings.

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** The clearest picture of extinct aquatic predator

After 25 years of collecting fossils at a Pennsylvania site, scientists at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University now have a much better picture of an ancient, extinct 12-foot fish and the world in which it lived.

** Tutankhamun 'secret burial chamber' does not exist, researchers find

The studies have shown that no chambers exist, or even an indication of any threshold or door frames, which contradicts the previous theory that had assumed the existence of passages or chambers adjacent or inside the burial chamber of King Tutankhamun

** Diamond museum opens in Belgium

The DIVA Museum, an institution created with the idea of highlighting the story behind some of the world’s most beautiful diamonds, has opened in Antwerp, the capital city of the Flemish province of the same name located in northern Belgium.

** Egypt moves last chariot of King Tutankhamun to new museum

The priceless artefact, paraded through Cairo on Saturday with a military police escort, was relocated from the Egyptian National Military Museum to its final resting place at the Grand Egyptian Museum.

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** A New Immersive Digital Museum In Tokyo

Their new museum addresses what they perceive to be a lack of spaces dedicated just to digital art, and that their museum will allow “visitors to melt into the art and become part of it.”

** Is This D.C.’s worst museum?

After finding the doorway to the museum, I descended a spiral staircase into a low-ceilinged room, quiet except for heart-pumping “Mission: Impossible”-style music — a soundtrack made somewhat less thrilling by the fact that it was being broadcast by a single tinny speaker.

** How a backyard pendulum saw sliced into a Bronze Age mystery

Archaeologists have suspected for nearly 30 years that a contraption capable of swinging a sharp piece of metal back and forth with human guidance must have created curved incisions on large pieces of stonework from Greece’s Mycenaean civilization.

** Pizza, eggs and ice cream: have alternative museums gone too far?

As New York prepares to welcome the Museum of Pizza, it will join similar pop-ups aimed more at inspiring Instagram selfies than spreading knowledge

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** Stolen Sumerian Tablets Come from the Lost City of Irisagrig

Hundreds of 4,000 year old tablets that were looted in Iraq and bought by the U.S. company Hobby Lobby seem to hail from a mysterious Sumerian city whose whereabouts are unknown.

** 100 Years On We’re Still Censoring Egon Schiele’s Nudes

Known for his erotic drawings of women as much as his own emo nude self-portraits, Egon Schiele is proving even more controversial now than he was 100 years ago, when he died at just 28, at the height of his career.

** Transportation museum says city wants to steal its trains

The Indiana Transportation Museum is accusing Noblesville of rushing to evict it from its long-time Forest Park home so it can seize its locomotives, passenger cars and other railroad equipment.

** Poland's Holocaust law triggers tide of abuse against Auschwitz museum

Officials at the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial and museum have described how they were subjected to a wave of “hate, fake news and manipulations” as a result of the controversy surrounding a contentious Holocaust speech law passed by Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party.

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** Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination

The Met's curator Andrew Bolton thinks the show, fundamentally, is about beauty and the fact that beauty can fill the gap between the believer and the nonbeliever.

** Uses and Audiences for the Heritage of Contemporary Science

Friday 15 June 2018, University of Glasgow

** Call for proposals for VAEA 2018 Conference

This annual gathering of nearly 500 professionals provides the most comprehensive opportunity for professional learning of art education in the Commonwealth

** ICOT2018 - Emerging Tourism Destinations: Working Towards Balanced Tourism Development

Kavala, Greece

** Met Janitors Hurrying To Remove Crucified Katy Perry From Museum Lobby

Frantically tidying up after last night’s star-studded, Catholic-art-themed fundraiser, staff janitors reportedly rushed to remove Katy Perry from a crucifix hanging on a wall of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s lobby Tuesday

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