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** Alleged mobster linked to $500M Gardner Museum art heist to leave prison

A reputed Connecticut mobster who authorities believe is the last surviving person of interest in the largest art heist in history is nearing the end of a four-year prison sentence in an unrelated weapons case.

** Politicians Urge V&A Dundee to Return £500,000 Grant to Sackler Heiress

Over the span of a year, the Sacklers have gone from the museum world’s top philanthropists to personae non gratae because of their role in the ongoing opioid epidemic.

** Multimillion-dollar Holocaust museum opens in Macedonia

The museum includes unique displays such as hundreds of suitcases dangling from the ceiling, a transport wagon similar to ones used to transport the Macedonian Jews to be murdered, and a tank engine of the kind used to produce deadly gas for the gas chamber of Treblinka.

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** African-American Couple Gets Behind a Museum’s Push for Greater Diversity

A $3.5 million gift to the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) to endow the position of chief curator may not seem particularly large by today’s standards of museum mega-giving, but it’s nonetheless important.

** Nude 'Mona Lisa' may be by Leonardo, say experts

A nude drawing that bears a striking resemblance to the "Mona Lisa" was done in Leonardo da Vinci's studio and may be the work of the master himself, a French museum says.

** Sotheby’s celebrates 275 years of history with London exhibition

On 11 March 1744, Samuel Baker, a “joyous fellow” with a “fondness for plum-coloured coats”, who for a decade had sold books from his corner table in Covent Garden’s Angel and Crown pub, brought the hammer down on his first auction.

** Palaeolithic art featuring birds and humans discovered

It is not very common to find representations of scenes instead of individual figures in Palaeolithic art, but it is even harder for these figures to be birds instead of mammals such as goats, deer or horses.

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** 10 things you may not know about The Scream

The pose of the screaming head with hands cupped around it may have been inspired by the artist’s memory of a hollow-eyed, bound Peruvian mummy on display in Paris at the Musée d’Ethnographie du Trocadéro in 1889.

** The Dutchman Who Discovered Two Rembrandts

No one had spotted a new painting by the Dutch master for four decades — until the scion of a storied Amsterdam family found two.

** Clean House to Survive? Museums Confront Their Crowded Basements

Fuelled by philanthropic zeal, lucrative tax deductions and the prestige of seeing their works in esteemed settings, wealthy art owners have for decades given museums everything from their Rembrandts to their bedroom slippers.

** Algeria's antiquities museum looted during massive protests

After a mostly peaceful protest by hundreds of thousands of Algerians the museum of antiquities and a primary school in the capital Algiers were set on fire.

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** Inside Berlin’s Secret Brick Museum

Sixty-nine-year-old Lange has been stockpiling bricks for almost 30 years now and he says he owns more than 1,800 unique bricks, weighing a good 14,000 pounds.

** The Scent Designers Trying to Capture the Smell of the New Museum

To construct the New Museum scents, Sorhaindo sent the museum’s 40-year anniversary catalogue to perfumers in Paris and they compiled lists of potential scent ingredients through studying the book and recounting their memories of the museum.

** The World's First Floating Museum Has Docked In Paris

Fluctuart, a three-story, sustainable, floating building with transparent walls and flexible spaces and entirely dedicated to urban art has docked in Paris, and the art world is in thrall.

** T. Rex Like You Haven’t Seen Him: With Feathers

Along with a cast of the T. rex specimen upstairs, its bones rearranged into an alternative crouch, the museum is presenting a new full-size model of the emperor dinosaur, its head and tail dappled with — believe it! — soft, bristly white feathers.

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** Music museums keeping Michael Jackson exhibits on display

Megastar Michael Jackson’s musical legacy has been getting critically reappraised after a new documentary rekindled allegations of child sexual abuse, but at least two music museums in Detroit and Tennessee aren’t scrubbing the King of Pop from their exhibits.

** The AI-Art Gold Rush Is Here

The art world is no stranger to trend and bluster driving attention, but the brave new world of AI painting appeared to be just more found art, the machine-learning equivalent of a urinal on a plinth.

** Well-Preserved Artifacts Are Found Under Maya Ruins

In a cave under the ancient city of Chichén Itzá, Mexican archaeologists discovered a trove of ceramic artifacts that appear to be over 1,000 years old.

** Why 19th-Century Paris Had a Museum Full of Copies

At the time, a museum of knock-offs would have seemed less strange than it does today; replicating famous paintings had an important place in 19th-century France.

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** Meet the 5 remarkable women behind Museum Lab

This is the story of Museum Lab, a sprawling new addition to the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh complex, which will open soon as part of the country’s largest cultural campus for families.

** 3rd Annual Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference

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** Development-led Archaeology in Europe

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Heritage Dot Inaugural Conference

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