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**  Museum Director Responsible for Seized Basquiat Collection Has a Previous History of Discovering So-Called Lost Art

The former director of the Orlando Museum where a Basquiat collection was recently seized by the FBI, has exhibited a pattern of acquiring unremarkable paintings at auction and then attributing them to masters.

**  So what exactly is Culture?

To fully understand a culture it’s necessary to get to know the specific patterns of life within it, and these can’t be captured by abstractions or generalisations.

**  Museums Association statement on the cost of living crisis

The rapidly increasing rate of inflation is causing severe problems for their institutional and individual members and for the wider sector.

**  Arkive is building the world’s first decentralized museum

What if museums were curated and funded by the internet, and allowed pieces to stay close to their cultural roots, displayed in a context that made sense?

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**  The Prado Museum: creating a hit digital content strategy
The kernel of the idea was that it is a privilege for a museum worker to be able to walk through the museum when it’s empty and to be alone in front of the masterpieces.

**  Museum Mourns The Passing Of Freckles, A Rare Lobster
The Virginia Living Museum mournfully announced the passing of a beloved animal; a Calico Lobster named Freckles, who had been discovered at a Red Lobster restaurant, died while attempting to moult.

**  Come for the Warhols, stay for the cars
In 1986, celebrating the company’s centennial, Mercedes-Benz hired Andy Warhol to paint 20 notable automobiles that the luxury German car company had manufactured since 1886.

**  Imagining the Afterlife through Ancient Vases
In this podcast, Getty Museum curator of antiquities David Saunders discusses these enormous and often elaborate vases, explaining the myths they depict and what is known about the ways in which they were used.
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**  Tiny Gold Book Found in English Field May Have Ties to Richard III
Experts say the 15th-century artifact bears striking similarities to the Middleham Jewel, a gold pendant found near the king’s childhood home in 1985.

**  The Kyiv museum staff who stayed to protect cherished artefacts
Cultural heritage workers are safeguarding valuable artefacts as well as those signifying Ukrainian statehood..

**  Giant ‘Murder’ Hornet Has Landed at the Natural History Museum
A clutch of kids gathers around entomologist Matt Buffington at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, simultaneously fascinated and repelled by the yellow-and-black winged insects housed inside the large glass-fronted display case in front of them,

**  Five Essential Exhibits Worth Traveling for This Summer and Beyond
Build an entire itinerary around these ground-breaking exhibits and anticipated museum openings.
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**  How the top social media channels rank in terms of engagement with cultural entities
Data proves that social media a top source of information for people who attend cultural entities.

**  A Multisensory Experience of Country opens at Melbourne Museum
A museum exhibition that breaks the mould, Tyama positions both objects and visitors as protagonists inside various story worlds informed by First People’s knowledge and Museum Victoria’s collections.

**  Climate activists in Italy glue themselves to Botticelli painting
The group said they had consulted with art restoration experts to find a way to glue themselves to the painting without damaging it.

**  Patents And The Missing Museum
Two fires put significant dents in this tremendous collection; the first in 1836, in a fire that consumed most of the approximately 10,000 patents that had been issued to that date, models and paper copies alike.
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** Bold Futures
How can we work together to build a shared, strategic vision for museums, galleries and science centres?

**  Rare dinosaur heads home as Germany agrees to return Brazilian fossil
More than a decade ago, a 110-million-year-old dinosaur fossil was taken from its resting place in the Araripe Basin in Brazil under murky circumstances.

**  How and Why Galleries Are Getting Hacked
In the middle of a collection purchase negotiation something went wrong: hackers managed to convince the Rijksmuseum Twenthe in Enschede to send the money to a different bank account.

**  Of snails and community science: how iNaturalist can help us know more about gastropods
In the digital age, community science platforms such as iNaturalist pose an interesting perspective to gather new information on these organisms through user-submitted photos and data.
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** The National Conference on Cultural Property Protection
Risk Management to Cultural Property in the New Normal: Resilience, Retention, & Recovery.

**  The National Survey of Scotland's Museums and Galleries
Museums Galleries Scotland (MGS) is carrying out a National Survey of Scotland’s Museums and Galleries

**  Stephen D. Houston to deliver 2023 Mellon Lectures
In next year’s lectures, Vital Signs: The Visual Cultures of Maya Writing, discover Mayan glyphs, a system that is part writing, part picture.

**  Man still playing Wordle
Reports emerging this afternoon have revealed that a man is not only still playing Wordle, he is also continuing to share his daily results on social media.
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