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** The Met’s Next Big Fashion Show Comes From One Little-Known Woman

The “pieces of couture” Sandy Schreier was talking about turned out to be one of the most important private fashion collections in the United States that most people have never heard of.

** Baked dormouse and other Roman delicacies come to Oxford

Fattened up with acorns and chestnuts to the size of a cricket ball and then stuffed, baked and perhaps seasoned with honey and poppy seeds, the dormouse was one of ancient Rome’s most popular delicacies.

** V&A to display collection of Extinction Rebellion artefacts

The museum, which specialises in art and design, has also acquired digital artefacts including the website from which the symbol is freely available for anyone to use, and a downloadable file for 3D printers, allowing activists to create and immediately use their own printing block to create yet more banners, T-shirts and placards.

** Two Years Into Construction, Philadelphia Museum Of Art Is Remaking Itself From The Inside

Well over two years into the ongoing interior transformation of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and more than a year out from the end of the massive undertaking, visitors are experiencing some challenges.

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** Baltimore Museum Of Art To Establish ‘Epicentre Of Scholarship’ For Matisse Studies

The museum, which is believed to house the world’s largest collection of Matisse’s work (more than 1,200 items), will open the Ruth R. Marder Center for Matisse Studies, a 3,500-square-foot facility intended to be “something like a think tank focused on Matisse,” in 2021.

** Art Protest Changed This Week – The Whitney Resignation Changes All

Even as activists now ask the question of who to target next and how to generalize a movement, it is worth saying that the focused approach cut through the sense that this is an impractically and paralyzingly total conversation.

** The Metropolitan Museum’s In-House Analytical Chemist

Where others concentrate on specific paintings or sculptures, Breitung—a lifelong art lover and former General Electric research scientist—takes a broad approach: “My focus is the environment of the whole museum.”

** A seminal decade in Roy Lichtenstein's career: the 1980s

A leading pioneer of the Pop Art movement, Roy Lichtenstein’s innovative use of the brushstroke, reducing the form of the painted stroke to its simplest expression, led to a new visual language which he elaborated to reach new heights in the 1980s.

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** Museums nearing a tipping point on sponsorship, says trustee who resigned from British Museum

Museums are “approaching a tipping point” on arts sponsorship, according to Ahdaf Soueif, the British Museum trustee who resigned last week over the institution’s stance on BP sponsorship, repatriation and outsourcing.

** Eighty years (and more) of Sutton Hoo

The Sutton Hoo ship burial is one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of all time; in simple terms, it is the grave of a Very Important Person who died in the early seventh century, during the Anglo-Saxon period.

** How scientists are coping in the wake of the National Museum fire in Brazil

Nearly a year after flames consumed Brazil’s National Museum in Rio de Janeiro, researchers are struggling to revive their work and resume their lives.

** Peru's Abtao Submarine Museum

Most the innards of the submarine are intact, so rather than walking through a glass case emporium, you can pull levers, raise periscopes, turn dials, and pretend to surreptitiously invade whichever country you fancy.

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** The Unicorn Tapestries

Lavishly woven in fine wool and silk with silver and gilded threads, the seven wall hangings collectively known as “The Unicorn Tapestries” are certainly amongst the most spectacular surviving artworks of the late Middle Ages.

** Rihanna’s stunning 'Yellow Queen' dress on exhibit in Singapore

The Asian Civilisations Museum (ACM) in Singapore, in a collaboration with Guo Pei, presents a showcase that examines the relevance and impact of Chinese art, and how Chinese aesthetics and traditions are being reimagined for the world today.

** Royal Museum for Central Africa Natural History Collections

From its foundation, the Royal Museum of Central Africa was an institution whose primary purpose was to glorify and legitimize King Leopold’s genocidal rule of the Congo as a Belgian colony.

** Dinosaur Bones Give Up Their Inner Secrets: Preserved Proteins, Hemoglobin, and Histones

Schweitzer’s samples are different in that they were so well preserved inside the bone that she could identify parts of proteins and different compounds; the scientific community questioned everything from the results and conclusions to the validity and execution of the methods themselves.

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** Museum Launches ‘Dating App’ to Match Visitors With the Perfect Artwork

Museum staff brainstormed and built Heartmatch, a Tinder-inspired app that personalizes a museum itinerary for you based on artworks you swipe right on.

** A Shipwreck, 500 Years Old, Appears on the Baltic Seabed

The research team, which includes a number of doctoral students, found the ship lying intact, its hull well preserved from keel to deck, as well as its masts and some rigging.

** Museum wins $4.6 million in lawsuit over benefactor’s will

The Portland Museum of Art won a $4.6 million court award after a jury determined that a caretaker coerced the wealthy woman she looked after into changing her will, giving the caretaker the woman’s entire estate.

** 2,000-year-old skeleton of 'legendary' warrior to go on show in Chichester

Due to its significance, a team of world class experts have been working with the Novium Museum, where it will be exhibited, to analyse and interpret the finds to tell the story of this incredible individual.

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** 2020 ALHFAM Annual Meeting & Conference: Call for Proposals

The Association for Living History, Farm and Agricultural Museums

** Call for Submissions: CIG Newsletter

The Curation Interest Group is requesting your submissions for our September newsletter.

** Call for help for the University of Alaska Museum of the North

Governor proposes to eliminate all State funding to the University of Alaska Museum.

** This Week's Horoscopes

Pisces - Expect little change from last week, aside from the marauding badgers growing rudimentary thumbs and learning to use chipped-flint tools

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