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** Met Museum to Return Prize Artifact Because It Was Stolen

The Metropolitan Museum of Art built a substantial exhibition last year around a new acquisition, a golden-sheathed coffin from the 1st century B.C. that was inscribed for Nedjemankh, a high-ranking priest of the ram-headed god Heryshef of Herakleopolis.

** Slow-going restoration at fire-gutted Brazilian museum

Teams of volunteers are still using large sieves to sort through ash and other debris to hunt for fragments that might have survived the Sept. 2 blaze, working in summer heat with the roof burned away to leave just the sky.

** Were The Arts Impacted By The American Government Shutdown?

A specific example of the chilling effect of the shutdown’s impact on arts organizations and local businesses comes again from the Smithsonian, which reportedly lost $1.5 million in revenue during the first 10 days of the shutdown.

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** Digital art does not ultimately lead to a physical “product,” although this was one of the big accusations post-internet art had to face: turning the digital into a unique product to sell it.

** Are museums responding well to the growing public discourse on repatriation?

Several museums in the UK are stepping up their efforts to conduct provenance research, acknowledge the colonial roots of their collections and provide greater transparency to visitors about how objects were acquired. See also - UK museums face mounting pressure to repatriate foreign items.

** The Tate Modern’s Angry Neighbours Entirely Missed The Point Of Cities

Alas, the well-heeled denizens of Neo Bankside don’t do indoor plants, or indeed net curtains (as suggested by the former Tate director, Nicholas Serota), or anything that might besmirch the interior perfection of their plate-glass prisons.

** The Louvre Is Still Hoping To Get Salvador Mundi For Big Leonardo Show

The phrasing of the Louvre’s statement suggests that the painting is still owned by a single individual, who is widely believed to be Mohammed bin Salman, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia.

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** Rare works by 'cultural magpies' of Bauhaus on show in London

The Bauhaus anniversary is being marked with thousands of events across the world, from exhibitions and films to symposia and dance, celebrating the profound way in which it shaped a global artistic vision and is still having an impact today.

** The Hidden History of Holocaust Money

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C holds one of the largest collections of Holocaust currency in the country, with more than 1,500 bills and coins from concentration camps and ghettos.

** Understanding the social purpose of digital technology for arts and heritage organisations

This report, for those interested in connecting digital and social purpose in their work, is full of strategic insights; case studies from the participating organisations; and bite-sized practical, actionable tips to move your work forward.

** Outstanding works from the Princely Collections

On the 300th anniversary of the founding of the Principality of Liechtenstein in 2019, the Albertina Museum is presenting a comprehensive selection of the most outstanding works from the Princely Collections under the title From Rubens to Makart.

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** ICOM seeks proposals for new museum definition

The International Council of Museums (ICOM) is looking for help to rethink and revise its museum definition, saying the existing version “does not reflect and express adequately the complexities of the 21st century and the current responsibilities and commitments of museums, nor their challenges and visions for the future”.

** Love around the world

The British Museum celebrated Valentine's Day with eight love stories, ranging from a philosophical examination of the relationship between genders, to quiet moments of intimacy between great couples of the past.

** Greece’s Top Ten Ancient Finds of the Last Decade

Greece has countless ruins to visit and historical sites to explore, all of which are priceless archaeological treasure; some discoveries made in the last decade are so spectacular that they have forever changed our understanding of history.

** Royal and Jedi handwear stars in museum’s glove show

Gloves worn by monarchs, soldiers, and Luke Skywalker in one of the Star Wars films, are to go on show at the Fashion Museum in Bath.

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** Artificial Intelligence is Deciphering the World’s Oldest Writings

The scientists are currently developing the program that would sift through the hundreds of thousands of untranslated cuneiform texts are using a sample of 67,000 administrative documents, from which they hope the software will “learn” to decipher others.

** Le Corbusier's Three Museums: A workshop on their care and conservation

This free GCI publication reports on the activities and discussions developed during the workshop, which was focused on the challenges of balancing building conservation and a collection's needs,

** Dinosaur Dreaming palaeontologists search for prehistoric mammals

One of the interesting things about this assemblage of dinosaurs and mammals is these animals were living close to the south pole, so they were polar and there's only a few places where you get dinosaurs this close a pole in either hemisphere.

** Backbones are overrated: Why invertebrates deserve a break

There’s a reason the logo for WWF is a panda, not a horseshoe crab, and polar bears are the face of climate change, rather than coral reefs.

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** Archaeology director misappropriated precious antiques, sculptures

The Pakistan Director of Archaeology and Museums, Dr Abdus Samad, has been arrested on serious charges related to missing expensive archaeological relics and statues, and corruption in some projects

** TRANSFERZONES – University | Collections | Public SphereZ

The annual conference of the German University Collections Association

** Digital Directions: Fundamentals of Creating and Managing Digital Collections

NEDCC | Northeast Document Conservation Center

** In an Instant: Polaroid at the Intersection of Art and Technology.

A Fresh Look at Instant Photography

** This Week's Horoscopes

Libra - The natives will shrink in terror when you demonstrate your lighter, as even they know that smoking is horrible for you

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