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** Tretyakov clamps down on ‘illegal’ tours by banning visitors from discussing works of art

The scandal broke when Maxim Shevchenko, a university professor from Moscow State University, was taking students around the gallery’s Vasily Vereshchagin exhibition.

** Leonardo scholar challenges attribution of $450m painting

Matthew Landrus, a Leonardo scholar, believes most of the painting is by the artist’s studio assistant Bernardino Luini, whose own work generally sell for less than £1m

** No more skeletons in Erie Art Museum’s closet

While it might seem alarming that the museum has been storing and now must return human remains to another country, repatriation from museums to countries of origin is not unusual.

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** Ten Picassos Discovered Amid Tehran Museum’s Hidden Collection of Western Art

The Picassos will be included in a major exhibition of works that have been held in storage since Iran’s 1979 revolution.

** The Tate launches drive to make displays more inclusive

The initiative, entitled Talking About Our Collection, asks members of the public to identify text that “overlooks or misrepresents an important perspective, or uses language which you suggest we should improve or change”.

** Newseum Says It Made a Mistake and Pulls ‘Fake News’ Shirts

So, in addition to the “Fake News” T-shirt, there’s a colouring book that depicts Mr. Trump as a superhero and a red “Make America Great Again” hat.

** UK Parliament has lost over 220 works of art

A huge haul of paintings, etchings and prints are unaccounted for - with the authorities at the House blaming database errors but admitting they do not know whether they have been stolen.

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** The Prince Who Pre-ordered Jane Austen’s First Novel

For Jane Austen, a 36-year-old writer who polished her prose in a country parlour by reading aloud to family, cracking 19th-century England’s book market came with some royal help.

** 10+ Weird and Wonderful Things You’ll Find at City Museum, St. Louis

Once you step inside the museum grounds, it’s like entering the mind of an artist who never lost their childlike sense of wonder and imagination.

** Using Timelines to Visualize A Museum’s Collections

During the research it became evident that digital collections store not only data about artefacts, but contain traces of the history of an institution; they reflect biases, beliefs and shifting focuses in collecting.

** Design Museum returns artists' works after arms controversy

The Design Museum has returned around a third of the works in its Hope to Nope exhibition to artists who criticised its decision to host an event for an arms manufacturer..

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** Ugliness Is Underrated: In Defence of Ugly Paintings

Even though the word 'ugly' is now primarily used to describe the unaesthetic aspect of things rather than their deep moral fibre, it retains elements of its original meaning.

** 'Coachella for comics': the world's biggest comedy museum opens

A not-for-profit, and the first devoted entirely to the art and craft of comedy, the National Comedy Center features over 50 interactive exhibits divvied up by style of humour as well as artifacts and ephemera that, in sum, tell the story of comedy from Charlie Chaplin to Dave Chappelle and beyond.

** Cat stolen from Russian museum found after social outcry

A spokesperson for the museum said the cat had been returned in good health although was feeling "discontent", adding that Behemoth was happy "talking to journalists and visitors".

** Met Museum's Collections Manager caught allegedly taking upskirt photos of women

A long-serving employee at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art accused of taking upskirt photos allegedly told police “this is going to ruin my life” after he was caught.

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** Italy to scrap free monthly museum entry

Responding to criticism from Italy's opposition parties, Bonisoli explained in a Facebook video that he had spoken to museum directors and that the majority were keen to end the Domenica al museo programme.

** The Art Of Stealing

What first seemed like a sophisticated burglary by professionals, turned out to be the work of a few small-time Romanian criminals who had no idea what they were getting themselves into.

** What Klaus Biesenbach Means for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles

For the third time in eight years, the beleaguered Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles is betting on New York expertise to help solve its problems

** How to design an exhibition for teens? Co-create it with them

We soon realised this eloquent, self-aware, and engaged group were so eager to work with Te Papa, and bursting with fantastic ideas.

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** Getting to the point of ancient spears

In 1893, a man called László Pokorny, a collector of curios, walked into the Hungarian National Museum in Budapest and handed over a clearly ancient spearhead.

** Popular Art, Architecture & Design

Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association

** Workshop: Politics of Natural History. How to Decolonize the Natural History Museum?

September 6-7 in Berlin

** Workshop: Care and ID of Photographs

@Arkansas Arts Center, October 15-18

** This Week's Horoscopes

Sagittarius - Change is right around the corner for you, and it’s raising a nine-iron above its head and watching your shadow grow larger as you approach.

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