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** Cannibalism, Roller Coasters and Self-Colonoscopies in the News? It’s Ig Nobel Season

The prizes are given out for seemingly ridiculous points of study, the type of research that the Annals of Improbable Research, which sponsors the Ig Nobels, claims “first makes people laugh, and then makes them think.”

** Cornelius Wasn’t the Only Gurlitt Sibling to Inherit Nazi-Looted Art

Nicoline Benita Renate Gurlitt received 18 works from her father’s trove of stolen art, and four of these works were just returned to their rightful owners.

** Master female artisan broke the male-dominated mold in ancient Greece

Pottery making in ancient Greece was a male-dominated profession, but about 3000 years ago, one woman from the island of Crete broke the mold to become the only known female master ceramicist in antiquity.

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** Chile's Nao Victoria Museum

Rising unexpectedly from an industrial park by the windswept shores of the Straits of Magellan is a full-size replica of Ferdinand Magellan’s Nao Victoria carrack, the first ship to circumnavigate the Earth.

** When Art Created by Artificial Intelligence Sells, Who Gets Paid?

For me, the far more interesting question is who among these people acquire rights in the outputs, not whether the software itself could have any claim of ownership.

** V&A Dundee review – a flawed treasure house on the Tay

All of which – both the promise of the form and the quality of the exhibits – make it headbangingly frustrating that a series of somewhat inexplicable architectural decisions keeps intruding on the journey from one to the other.

** In search of a Perfect Blue

The Bible described it as the perfect, pure blue and then for nearly 2,000 years, everyone forgot what it looked like. See also A Look at the Newest Blue Pigment—and How a Colour Becomes a Commodity

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** The happiness and melancholia of young Pablo Picasso

More than 300 works from two key periods in Pablo Picasso's early years have gone on display in Paris, the first time they have been brought together in the city where the Spanish master took his first steps toward revolutionary new territories of modern art.

** An Ancient Crosshatch May Be the Earliest Drawing Ever Found

Around 73,000 years ago, in a cave now known as Blombos, someone took a pointed lump of iron-rich rock—ochre—and dragged its tip across another rock, leaving behind a pattern of red, crosshatched strokes.

** The necessity for adequate public funding for museums

As our Brazilian colleagues assess the extent of the devastating loss to the world’s cultural heritage following the fire at their National Museum, we, the international museum community, are forced to face some hard facts about our sector.

** The Mordor squid: Comparing fossils found in Middle-earth and New Zealand

If a fossil squid has been found in Mordor, what about “real-life Mordor”? Were any squid fossils discovered here in New Zealand?

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** Malang museum highlights Indonesia's struggle for independence

The museum's collection is displayed in three sections: a diorama and items used during the Yogyakarta March 1, 1949, attack; the Pacific War between Japan and the United States; and the struggles of fighters in Malang and the surrounding area.

** Mummified ice age wolf pup and caribou found in northern Canada

The rare remains of an ice-age wolf pup and a caribou will offer insights about life in Canada's far north more than 50,000 years ago.

** A Treasure Trove of Oddities and Timely Exhibitions

Originally defined as an academic museum of Anthropology and World Archaeology, the Pitt Rivers Museum has morphed into something much more extensive and meaningful.

** New Las Vegas museum has a 24-foot bong

Though the museum doesn't sell weed for guests to smoke or eat, it does celebrate the recent rise of cannabis culture in Nevada and across the country.

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** ‘Germ City’ explores infectious diseases in NYC

In 1918, a flu pandemic claimed the lives of upward of 50 million people worldwide — including 30,000 New York City residents.

** Court rejects claim to Matisse owned by National Gallery

A federal appeals court in New York has rejected a claim to a 1908 Matisse painting owned by the National Gallery in London by three grandchildren of the muse portrayed in the work.

** Wikipedia Has Received Thousands of Images for Their Archive of Brazil’s Museum Fire Losses

What’s more, it so far appears the institution did not have a full digital log of their holdings to show what was lost—adding insult to the wound for many. See also - Losing a museum, losing the world.

** What Happened When One University Moved a Confederate Statue to a Museum

Students criticize the exhibit’s exclusion of historical information about Jim Crow laws, race relations, and the “Lost Cause” movement, white nostalgia for the ante bellum era and Southern heroism in the Civil War.

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** The mana of taonga and what it means for New Zealand museums

As staff in museums, we each have our own understanding of what the mana of taonga is, what it means to us, and how this manifests in our daily practice.

** National Register & Is It Cost Effective?

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** The Knowledgeable Object - a symposium and workshop

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** Rare Book School is Now Accepting Applications for Fall 2018 & Winter 2019 Courses

Applications are now being accepted for six Rare Book School courses offered this fall and winter

** This Week's Horoscopes

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