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** Toxic dilemma faced by German museums repatriating artefacts
Historical use of pesticides to protect collections means objects are contaminated by not only colonial heritage.
** After 220 Years, the Fate of the Parthenon Marbles Rests in Secret Talks
The New York Times is the latest major international media outlet to spotlight apparent progress in the efforts to return the Parthenon Marbles to Greece, reporting that, “the British Museum and Greece’s prime minister are getting closer to a deal on returning the so-called Elgin Marbles to Athens. But key differences remain.”
** Which New York Museums Still Hold Native Remains?
“The Repatriation Project” features a searchable database with logs of over 100,000 Native American remains spread across the collections of US cultural institutions — including art museums, that still possess remains decades after the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) was passed in 1990.
** Artists File Class Action Lawsuit Against AI Image Generator Giants
Artists have filed a class action lawsuit targeted at Stability AI, Midjourney, and DeviantArt, who have released artificial intelligence powered image generators that can transform simple text prompts into convincingly rendered images.
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** Van Gogh's Tokyo Sunflowers: Was it a Nazi forced sale? And is the painting now worth $250m?
Bought for a Japanese museum in 1987, the masterpiece has just been claimed by the heirs of a Jewish Berlin banker
** Ex-Payroll Manager Charged With Defrauding Art Institute of Chicago Out of $2M
The former payroll manager at the Art Institute of Chicago allegedly defrauded the museum out of more than $2 million by siphoning funds intended for other current or former employees into his own bank account for more than a decade,
** Honouring the Ancient Dead completes database of ancient human remains
Honouring the Ancient Dead (HAD) has completed the first major edition of its Your Local Museum database, which brings together records of ancient human remains held in more than 300 museums,
** The Tudor Roots of Modern Billionaires’ Philanthropy
The debate over how to manage the wealthy’s fortunes after their deaths traces its roots to Henry VIII and Elizabeth I.
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** Russians steal Ukraine's art, attacking its identity, too
The Kherson Regional Art Museum was cleaned out, with Russian forces "bustling about like insects," porters wheeling out thousands of paintings, soldiers hastily wrapping them in sheets, art experts barking out orders and packing material flying everywhere.
** The Smithsonian Will Restore Hundreds of the World’s Oldest Sound Recordings
Until about ten years ago, nobody knew what Alexander Graham Bell sounded like; but a breakthrough came in 2013, when Smithsonian researchers recovered a previously “unplayable” recording of the scientist on a wax-and-cardboard disc.
** Jerusalem museum showcasing Armenian history reopens after 5-year renovation
Mardigian Museum in Old City features the rich culture and travails of a community that has maintained a continuous presence in holy city even as rulers have come and gone.
** Museum Asks Public to Reinvent a Classic Painting, With Wild Results
The Mauritshuis museum in The Hague put out an open call for creative takes on Johannes Vermeer's classic 17th century painting, Girl With a Pearl Earring, with some bizarre and delightful results
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** Museum of Broadway Curator Talks About How He Made Theatre History Come to Life
How do you narrow down 300 years of Broadway history? Luckily, Ben West had been training for the task.
** The idea of a ‘precolonial’ Africa is theoretically vacuous, racist and plain wrong
To those who might be put off by the severity of the proposal, or its ideological-police ring, I hear you and ask only that, with just a little patience, you hear me out.
** Scientists discover 4 surprising dinosaur species in Chilean valley
Scientists in an inhospitable valley in the Chilean Patagonia have discovered the fossils of four dinosaur species – including a megaraptor – at a site that over the past decade has emerged as an important fossil deposit.
** Whaling Museum Employee Charged With Stealing Items
A New Bedford man faces charges that he allegedly stole dozens of artefacts from the New Bedford Whaling Museum during his employment there as a facilities associate over the past two years.
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** 'Thou shalt commit adultery' - DC's Museum of the Bible holds a historic typo
In the museum's "History of the Bible" exhibit, there are two of the original 1,000 bibles that contained one of the most infamous errors in Bible printing history.
** Hunterian Museum defends decision to retain skeleton of ‘Irish giant’ Charles Byrne
Specimen will be removed from display but will continue to be available for medical research.
** Mapping the Sāmoa collections: The First World War and New Zealand’s Empire
The ongoing project Mapping the Sāmoa Collections aims to learn more about the measina Sāmoa in Te Papa's collection and make them more accessible to communities.
** Art, Consumption, and Creativity
I hope that “Food for Thought,” a new series exploring representations of food in the National Gallery’s collection, will pique your intellectual appetite.
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** Through Ages, Cultures, Concepts: Instruments in Collections, Books, Archives
42nd Scientific Instrument Symposium 18 - 22 September 2023
** Next round of MEND announced
Arts Council England has announced that the next round of Museum Estate and Development Fund (MEND) will open for expressions of interest on 6 March, with full applications open from 30 May, as part of the Cultural Investment Fund 2023.
** Call For Papers. Gilding Textiles: New Archaeological Evidence and Scientific Developments on the Production of Metal Threads.
We’re pleased to announce the following session “Gilding Textiles: New Archaeological Evidence and Scientific Developments on the Production of Metal Threads” to be held at the 29th European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) meeting in Belfast, August 30th to September 2nd, 2023.
** Debt-Ridden 4th-Grader Shouldn’t Have Recklessly Invested In Lunch
If you’re going to gamble your whole allowance on a daily carton of milk, that’s your choice, but is the quick fix of calcium and vitamins really worth it once your creditworthiness is destroyed
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